{"id":372,"date":"2026-08-03T16:32:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/?p=372"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:32:35","slug":"turkey-based-global-director-of-sham-charity-arrested-and-charged-with-conspiring-to-provide-material-support-to-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Turkey-Based Global Director of Sham Charity Arrested and Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"grid-container\">\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-row grid-gap a11y-natural-flow\">\n<div class=\"usa-layout-docs__main tablet-lg:grid-col-fill\">\n<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class=\"hidden\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"grid-row grid-gap\">\n<div class=\"node-content node-press-release\">\n<div class=\"node-type\">Press Release<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"page-title\">\n<span class=\"field-formatter--string\">Turkey-Based Global Director of Sham Charity Arrested and Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Hamas<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h1>\n<div class=\"node-top\">\n<div class=\"node-top-left\">\n<div class=\"node-language-switcher\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"node-date\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"field-formatter--datetime-default field_date\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-31T12:00:00Z\">Friday, July 31, 2026<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"node-top-right\">\n<div class=\"node-info-box\">\n          <strong>For Immediate Release<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"node-office\">\n                            Office of Public Affairs\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"field-formatter--text-default field-text-format--wysiwyg text-formatted field_body\">\n<p>A three-count complaint was unsealed today charging Mohammad Yousef Hasna, also known as \u201cOrhan Korkmaz\u201d and \u201cAbu al-Baraa,\u201d\u00a045, of Istanbul, Turkey,\u00a0with conspiring to provide material support to Hamas, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and related terrorism financing charges.\u00a0As alleged, Hasna used his senior role at a purported global humanitarian organization to coordinate directly with Hamas\u2019s senior leadership regarding the delivery of funds and supplies to Gaza, and the distribution of those funds and supplies at Hamas leadership\u2019s instructions. Hasna was arrested in the United Kingdom today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money that flows from sham charities like the one described in the complaint fuels Hamas\u2019s terrorist activities, including the atrocities the group committed on October 7,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg. \u201cHamas cannot function without injections of money through its illicit financial networks.\u00a0The National Security Division will continue to work tirelessly to disrupt Hamas\u2019s operations, including through the prosecutions such as this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMohammad Hasna is alleged to have abused his position as the global director of a purported humanitarian organization to raise money and provide funds and supplies to Hamas, a brutal terrorist organization responsible for the murders of dozens of Americans and over a thousand other innocent victims, including as part of the heinous atrocities of October 7,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald for the Southern District of New York. \u201cHasna worked closely with Hamas\u2019s senior leadership to deliver supplies, food, funding, and other materials to terrorists under the guise of humanitarian aid.\u00a0Our arrest of Mohammad Hasna demonstrates our commitment to dismantling Hamas\u2019s illicit global financing networks and the sham charities that support terrorist organizations and their violent aims using the lie of philanthropy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accused allegedly used a purported humanitarian aid organization to raise funds and provide financing and supplies to Hamas, a ruthless international terrorist organization,\u201d said Assistant Director Jarod Brown of the FBI\u2019s Counterterrorism Division. \u201cAccording to the criminal complaint, the defendant coordinated his actions closely with a senior leader of Hamas and knew the resources were going to that group rather than to needy non-combatants. The FBI is committed to cutting off funding and other assistance to terrorist organizations and\u00a0will continue to work closely with our U.S. government and international partners to present a united front against global terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the allegations contained in the complaint, Hasna is the global director of a purported international charity registered in the United Kingdom (the \u201cSham Charity\u201d). In that role, Hasna allegedly provided financing and commodities to Hamas, including by coordinating extensively with individuals at the highest levels of Hamas. As alleged, Hasna worked closely with senior Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad (Hamad), a member of Hamas\u2019s governing body known as the Politburo and the Minster for the Ministry of Social Development in Gaza (MoSD), a putative governmental agency that is controlled by Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya, commonly known as Hamas, is a terrorist organization that was founded in 1987, and has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States since 1997. From its inception, Hamas\u2019s stated purpose has been to create an Islamic Palestinian state throughout Israel by eliminating the State of Israel through violent holy war, or jihad. Hamas also promotes attacks against the United States and its citizens, and over more than two decades, Hamas has murdered and injured dozens of Americans as part of its campaign of violence and terror. On October 7, 2023, Hamas committed its most violent, large-scale terrorist attack to date (the \u201cOctober 7 Hamas Massacres\u201d) when Hamas sent more than 2,000-armed fighters into farms and towns in southern Israel, where they carried out the massacres of over a thousand people and the kidnappings of 251 hostages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the October 7 Hamas Massacres, in its disclosures to UK authorities, the Sham Charity reported that its total gross income nearly doubled from approximately $41.8 million USD in fiscal year 2023, to approximately $81.56 million USD in fiscal year 2024. The Sham Charity represented that it spent approximately $91 million on charitable activities in the fiscal year ending July 31, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since at least 2023, Hasna and Hamad coordinated the delivery of purported humanitarian aid organized by or allocated to the Sham Charity into Gaza for Hamas\u2019s benefit, repeatedly coordinating the delivery of supplies, food, and other items by Hasna (under the guise of humanitarian aid from the Sham Charity) directly into Hamad\u2019s and Hamas\u2019s hands. In coordination with Hamad and at Hamad\u2019s direction, Hasna allegedly arranged (1)\u00a0deliveries of cash to Hamad; (2) the procurement of supplies for import to Gaza; (3) transportation of supplies into Gaza by truck from Egypt and elsewhere; (4) deliveries to warehouses controlled by the Sham Charity or by MoSD, according to Hamad\u2019s instructions; and (5) distribution of those supplies to lists of recipients identified by Hamad. As part of this scheme, Hasna and Hamad concealed where the supplies were being delivered or stored, including by misrepresenting that supplies were being delivered to MoSD when in fact they were being delivered to warehouses controlled by Hasna; having supplies delivered initially to MoSD but then redistributed to the actual receiving parties; and taking pictures and videos of the supplies that omitted any signage inside the warehouses that would reveal their location or control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hasna is charged with conspiring to provide material support to Hamas, conspiring to finance terrorism, and\u00a0financing terrorism, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>A federal district judge will determine their sentences after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Counterterrorism Section of the Department of Justice\u2019s National Security Division thanks the U.K. authorities and the Israeli Security Agency for their assistance with this investigation. The Justice Department\u2019s Office of International Affairs and the United Kingdom\u2019s law enforcement authorities provided significant assistance.<\/p>\n<p>This case is being handled by the Southern District of New York\u2019s National Security and International Narcotics Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sarah L. Kushner, Michael D. Lockard, and Juliana N. Murray are in charge of the prosecution, with assistance from Alicia Cook of the Counterterrorism Section of the Department of Justice\u2019s National Security Division.<\/p>\n<p><em>An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"node-updated-date\">Updated July 31, 2026<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"node-topics\">\n<div><strong>Topic<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-formatter--entity-reference-label field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\">National Security<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"node-component\">\n<div class=\"label text-bold margin-bottom-1\">\n                Components      <\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/\"><br \/>\n          Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/nsd\"><br \/>\n          National Security Division (NSD)<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\"><br \/>\n          USAO &#8211; New York, Southern<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span>Press Release Number:<\/span> 26-875\n      <\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-row grid-gap\">\n<div class=\"post-content-region\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"tni-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/turkey-based-global-director-sham-charity-arrested-and-charged-conspiring-provide-material\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justice News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/turkey-based-global-director-sham-charity-arrested-and-charged-conspiring-provide-material\">Justice News<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-count complaint was unsealed today charging Mohammad Yousef Hasna, also known as \u201cOrhan Korkmaz\u201d and \u201cAbu al-Baraa,\u201d&nbsp;45, of Istanbul, Turkey,&nbsp;with conspiring to provide material support to Hamas, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and related terrorism financing charges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thirstier.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}