Was Jean-Charles Brisard commissioned by the President of the United Nations Security Council to prepare a report on the financing of terrorism?
No, he was not. The so-called ‘UN’ report prepared by Jean-Charles Brisard and JCB Consulting, was published on a web site in late December 2002. Mr Brisard claimed that the report, entitled ‘Terrorism Financing: Roots and trends of Saudi terrorist financing’, had been prepared at the request of the President of the UN Security Council in December 2002 and briefed journalists accordingly. In his written evidence to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking on 22 October 2003, Mr.Brisard drew the attention of that committee to ‘my report to the UN’. Despite Mr Brisard’s assertions that he was commissioned by the President of the United Nations Security Council to prepare a report on terrorism financing, this is in fact ‘completely false’. The then President of the UN Security Council, Alfonso Valdivieso, has confirmed in two letters dated 12 March 2004 (click here to read) and 26 April 2004 (click here to read). He stated that it is ‘completely false that I in my capacity as President of the
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