Nabil Sayadi was the director and founder of the

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an branch of

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, centred in

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. Sayadi was born in

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. He is accused that he transferred 200,000 Euros to

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financier

Mohammed Zouaydi Born in Syria, Mohammed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi ( ar, محمد غالب كلاج زوايدي) became a Spanish accountant while living between Spain and Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia he was known as ''accountant for the al-Faisal branch of the Saudi ...

, which caused him to be placed on

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and

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watch-lists along with his wife and GRF secretary Patricia Vinck. As a result,

froze their bank accounts.The terrors of Putte
/ref> Neither organization had listed any crimes with which they are associated. He has been described by the FBI as a close friend and associate of

Wadih El-Hage Wadih Elias el-Hage ( ar, وديع الحاج, ''Wadī‘ al-Ḥāj'') (born July 25, 1960) is Lebanese, and naturalized American citizen, who is serving life imprisonment in the United States based on conspiracy charges for the 1998 United State ...

, personal secretary to

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. On January 6, 2006, two Belgian judges exonerated Sayadi of any links with

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after Sayadi's lawyer declared: "''If the US has something against them, they should give it to us.''www.lalibre.be
/ref> Recently, they won a process against the Belgian state and by that reason they are declared innocent and now have a chance of being removed from the blacklist. Sayadi and Vinck filed a complaint in front of the human rights council. The council did not argue on the interplay of ICCPR and the UNC. But they decided that Belgium cannot review the SC decisions, but at least the obligations of Belgium under ICCPR. The council decided that Belgium violated the ICCPR as it was too fast listing Sayadi and Vinck on the blacklist, with not enough evidence. As a result, in 2009 the names were delisted.

References

Living people Lebanese emigrants to Belgium Year of birth missing (living people) {{belgium-bio-stub