Terrorist front organization

A terrorist front organization is created to conceal activities or provide logistical or financial support to the illegal activities. "Import-export" companies are favorite front organizations for terrorist groups.
This is an incomplete list of groups that have been accused by some government agencies of being terrorist fronts:

• Al Barakaat, an international money wiring organization accused of funding Al-Qaida
• Benevolence International Foundation, a charity that U.S. authorities accuse of diverting funds to terrorist activities, including those of Al-Qaida
• Direct Action Against Drugs - An organization said to be a front for the Provisional IRA
• Global Relief Foundation, accused of funding Islamist terrorists
• Konsojaya Trading Company, accused of providing financial assistance to local Jemaah Islamiyah plots and Al-Qaida plots in Southeast Asia

See also

• Hawala, an informal value transfer system useful to terrorists (and criminals) for transmission of money outside of regulated channels.
• List of charities accused of ties to terrorism

Sources

• Hawala. An Informal Payment System and Its Use to Finance Terrorism by Sebastian R. Müller (Dec. 2006), ISBN: ISBN 3865506569, ISBN 978-3865506566