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JCB Report

Q: Was Jean-Charles Brisard commissioned by the President of the United Nations Security Council to prepare a report on the financing of terrorism?
A : 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 Security Council or as President of the 1267 (Terrorism) Committee or in any capacity within that Organization had commissioned him on a personal or official basis to write a Report on terrorism. He [Jean-Charles Brisard] had no role whatsoever with the United Nations Security Council during the period in which I occupied the Presidency'. Senor Valdivieso has also confirmed that Mr Brisard's report was unsolicited; that he does not believe it was taken seriously by anyone at the UN; or that the UN took any step or action as a result of being sent the report. He added that 'Mr Brisard's conduct and attitude is totally deceitful and marked by the intention to mislead'.

The Al Qaeda Taliban Sanctions Committee established by the UN Security Council pursuant to UN Resolution 1267 (1999) has also confirmed that the status of the JCB report as follows:

- The JCB report was never commissioned by the President or any member of the UN Security Council or any subsidiary body or indeed any UN body. Therefore the report has no official status within the UN.

- The JCB report has never been published by the UN Security Council or any other UN agency.

- Any member of the public is entitled to submit a document to the UN. The JCB report was received on the same basis as any other unsolicited document sent to the UN.

The JCB report contains a number of grave and unfounded allegations about Khalid bin Mahfouz and is currently being contested by him in the UK courts. (See Litigation).