Sheffield United Received A £3m Loan From The Family Of Osama Bin Laden
Posted Friday, May 17, 2019 by thesportbible.com
Sheffield United are in hot water after it has emerged that the club received a £3m loan from the family of Osama bin Laden.
According to the Daily Telegraph, a High Court judge is looking into a power struggle over the football club between co-owners Kevin McCabe and Prince Abdullah bin Musa'ad bin Abdul Aziz, who is a member of the Saudi Arabia royal family.
It has been reported that on the fourth day of the hearings that the Blades received a £3m loan from 'Project Delta,' which can be traced back to the al-Qaeda founder and former leader's family.
Barrister Andreas Gledhill QC, who is representing Abdullah's team, has said that McCabe was aware of where the funding had come from.
In fact, the Sheffield Star has reported that Gledhill said McCabe 'knew the money had come from another source, namely a member of the bin Laden family.'
The Sheffield United owners each own a 50 per cent stake in the club.
McCabe, 71, met Abdullah, 54, back in 2013 when the former was looking for someone to invest into the club.
Abdullah agreed to invest £10m into the club, although his relationship with McCabe began to unravel in 2017.
The trial is expected to continue over the next few weeks.
The United States Navy SEALs killed bin Laden back in 2011 during an operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Seeing that the Bin Laden name is trending for loans to Sheffield United is peak 2019. pic.twitter.com/qrYGvoXXRz
— Amanda Graham (@AGComedy) May 16, 2019
When you see Bin Laden is trending on Twitter and find out it's because his family loaned £3m to Sheffield United... pic.twitter.com/ZLfSSyzRcB
— ODDSbible (@ODDSbible) May 16, 2019
During Kevin McCabe's and Prince Abdullah's ongoing high court battle for control of Sheffield United, the judge revealed that Sheffield United was funded by a £3million loan from Osama bin Laden's family!
— Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) May 16, 2019
Via: @TeleFootball pic.twitter.com/L0vzz45sq7
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