HENKIN v. KUVEYT TURK KATILIM BANKASI A.S.
Osen LLC (together with co-counsel) represents five families who were victims of terrorist attacks committed by the Palestinian Foreign Terrorist Organization, Hamas.
The Complaint in Henkin, et al. v. Bank Kuveyt focuses on Hamas’s fundraising activities in Turkey alleging that Bank Kuveyt, a Turkish bank, knowingly aided and abetted Hamas from at least 2012 through 2016 by knowingly holding accounts and providing financial services for the terrorist organization.
Specifically, the Plaintiffs allege that Bank Kuveyt knowingly and purposely used its correspondent banks in New York to facilitate U.S. dollar-denominated funds transfers for Hamas’s benefit. The Complaint describes Hamas’s fundraising network in Turkey, detailing its longtime political and financial support of Hamas, and focuses on three Hamas-affiliated customers of Bank Kuveyt: (1) Jihad Yaghmour, a senior Hamas operative and U.S.-designated Specially Designated Global Terrorist; (2) Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (“IHH”), an Israeli-designated Unlawful Association and Terrorist Organization linked to umbrella Hamas fundraiser Union of Good (also a Specially Designated Global Terrorist); and (3) the Islamic University of Gaza (“IUG”), a Hamas stronghold closely related to Hamas’s terrorist activities.
The Complaint alleges that Bank Kuveyt held accounts and provided financial services for all of them knowing that these customers were closely intertwined with Hamas’s violent activities.
The parties then began discovery in 2024, which is ongoing.
