- Konsojaya Trading Company
The Konsojaya Trading Company was a shell company cofounded by
Jemaah Islamiyah leaderRiduan Isamuddin , better known as "Hambali", and hisMalaysian Chinese wife,Noralwizah Lee Abdullah on June 1994. The company was based inKuala Lumpur ,Malaysia .An Afghan named
Wali Khan Amin Shah was one of the board of directors of the company. He also owned half (3,000) of the company's 6,000 shares. Another member of the board of directors was AfghanMehdat Abdul Salam Shabana , who owned the other half of the company's shares. Another member was 30-year oldHemeid H. Algamdi , a citizen ofJeddah ,Saudi Arabia .Yemen iAmein Mohamed was the managing director of Konsojaya. A company profile that was circulated to suppliers and customers stated that he was the former marketing director of aPakistan -based supplying agent for a company in Jeddah.Konsojaya stated in its incorporation papers that it was an "import/export" company that shipped
palm oil toAfghanistan fromMalaysia . The organization also dealt with the export ofSudan esehoney . Its "principal objective" was to import and export products found in theAsia /Pacific region (East Asia ,Southeast Asia , andOceania ) to Afghanistan,Saudi Arabia ,Bahrain , andSudan .A man named
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed , who was staying inManila ,Philippines , often travelled to several places, includingBrazil , to promote Konsojaya.Konsojaya actually funneled money and material assistance to several regional militant Islamic plots. The organization also funneled money to an account owned by
Omar Abu Omar , an employee of theInternational Relations and Information Centre , an organization run byMohammed Jamal Khalifa , who is married to one ofOsama bin Laden 's sisters. The money would then be siphoned into an account under the name of "Adam Salih", an alias ofRamzi Yousef , who was at the time planningManila -basedOperation Bojinka , an attack that would have destroyed eleven airliners.Manila police discovered Operation Bojinka after an apartment fire led police to a suspect on
January 6 and the morning ofJanuary 7 ,1995 .According to corporate records in
Kuala Lumpur , Konsojaya no longer exists.External links
* [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-020702hambali,1,3067757.story]
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