Israel Matzav

Tragic: Israel abandons terror victims

Late Friday afternoon, Israel blocked one of its agents from testifying in a lawsuit against the Bank of China. The lawsuit accuses the bank of financing the terrorists who murdered 16-year old Daniel Wultz of Florida in 2008.

Israel filed a motion on late Friday in a federal court in Washington, DC to block former Israeli agent Uzi Shaya from testifying against the Bank of China in a major terror-financing case.

Shaya's testimony was planned to be a major part of the terror victims' and victims families' case against the bank.

Shurat Hadin - Israel Law Center, representing 22 of the victims, accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of "turning his back" on the victims of terror by blocking Shaya, who has publicly said he wished to testify, from testifying because of external considerations relating to Israeli-Chinese relations.

The witness has already filed an affidavit in the case stating that he was present at key meetings between Israeli and Chinese officials, including officials from the Bank of China, in 2005 in which the Israeli officials provided evidence and notice to the bank and to China that Islamic Jihad and Hamas were using the bank to launder and transfer funds.

Shaya's testimony is a primary source of evidence which could disprove the bank's claim that it did not have notice of the terror financing activities until it was sued. 

 Previous posts on this tragic story here and here. On whose side is our government anyway?

Labels: Bank of China, Mossad, terror victim suits in US

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:31 PM