(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Yoni Ben Menachem - On June 11, 2020, the Palestinian Center for Communications news agency and the Hamas-affiliated Shehab News Agency released a video of Yasser Jadallah, former director of President Mahmoud Abbas' Political Department in the PA, who described how funds given to the PA from international organizations were transferred to personal accounts. Jadallah claimed that funds listed by the Palestinian Ministry of Finance under the heading "EU assistance and Arab states" were mostly transferred to the Palestinian presidency and from there to secret accounts with fictitious names, including accounts with the names of Abbas' grandchildren. Jadallah has sought political asylum in Belgium and said he forwarded all the material he had on PA corruption to the EU and Belgian authorities.
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