The counselor representing Mr Kassem Tajideen released a statement, whereby he denied the charges in the United States, Morocco, or elsewhere arising from allegations that Mr Tajideen has a connection to terrorist activities.
The attorney Chibli Mallat stressed that Mr Tajideen is a self-made businessman who opposes terrorism and any politically-motivated violence, adding that he has repeated time and again that he would never knowingly support terrorism or political violence of any kind.
“In 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) wrongly named him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) based on allegations that he (personally or through his companies) was involved in financing terrorism. There is no merit to those allegations. To prove as much, Mr. Tajideen has provided OFAC with the information and evidence necessary to remove his designation. Since 2009, he and his counsel have been actively engaged in an OFAC delisting proceeding to prove his innocence. In doing so, Mr. Tajideen agreed to an unprecedented, comprehensive forensic investigation of his personal and business dealings by a leading global accounting firm, which found no evidence to support OFAC’s designation,” the statement read.
Mallat stated that they received a copy of the extradition file from US authorities concerning charges leading to his arrest in Morocco, stressing that Mr Tajeddin will fight the extradition demand, as well as unfounded accusations on which it is based.