High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Youssef Moustafa Nada (b. 1931, Egypt) is a noted businessman and Muslim Brotherhood financial strategist, having recently served as chairman of al Taqwa Bank, the multinational financial services outfit accused by the US Treasury Department during the Bush administration of financing al Qaeda. Nada himself vehemently denied funding Osama bin Laden or any other terrorist organization, and in 2006 he sued the Swiss government for restitution of financial losses incurred due to the freezing of his assets and the ensuing investigation by Swiss authorities. Switzerland and Italy lacked sufficient evidence to support its prosecution against Nada and his businesses, let alone a conviction, and have formally requested several times that both the United States and the UN de-list Nada and his businesses from any list relating to al Qaeda, the final being in 2009. The United States finally acquiesced to his removal from the list of the United Nations of individuals tied to Al-Qaida on September 24, 2009, but continues to maintain Nada and his companies status as designated financiers of terrorism pursuant to Executive Order 13224. {See http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/ascii/terror.txt}