"In 1999, Islamic Relief Worldwide received a payment of £50,000 from a Canadian charity that the US Department of the Treasury identified as a "Bin Laden front". In 2005, the Russian Government accused Islamic Relief of supporting terrorism in Chechnya.
In 2006, the Israeli Government designated Islamic Relief a "terrorist front." After three weeks' detention in Israel, the head of Islamic Relief's operations in Gaza, Ayaz Ali, was deported by Israeli authorities after being accused of funneling money to banned organizations and storing images of swastikas and Osama bin Laden on his computer.
In November 2012, the Swiss Bank UBS closed the account of, and blocked all donations to, Islamic Relief due to "counter-terror concerns."
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