Benevolence International Foundation

The Benevolence International Foundation (Benevolence International Fund in Canada, Bosanska Idealna Futura in Bosnia) (BIF) was a purported nonprofit charitable trust based in Saudi Arabia. It was a front for al-Qaeda. It was banned by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267 and the US Department of the Treasury in November 2002. BIF's chief executive officer Enaam Arnaout began serving a ten-year sentence in 2003 after pleading guilty for racketeering in U.S. Federal Court.

The foundation was founded in 1987 by Adel bin Abdul-Jalil Batterjee of Jeddah Saudi Arabia. (Batterjee was later personally embargoed by the UN from December 2004 until March 2013 and by the US from December 2004 on.) Its website stated it was a "humanitarian organization ... helping those afflicted by wars", providing "short-term relief such as emergency food distribution", and later "long term projects ... education and self-sufficiency to the children, widowed, refugees, injured and staff of vital governmental institutions." BIF had offices in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo and Zenica), Canada, China, Croatia, Georgia (Duisi and Tbilisi), the Netherlands, Pakistan (Islamabad, Peshawar), the Palestinian Territories, Russia (Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Moscow), Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and Jeddah), Sudan, Tajikistan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Yemen.

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