According to Mashreq News, the MKO has been claiming for decades that their financial resources are provided by their supporters. After the US State Department wrote in a fact sheet about the MKO in the 1990s that Iraq supported this group to attack Iran, Massoud Rajavi wrote a letter to Hamilton, chairman of the European and Middle East Subcommittee of Congress on February 27, 1992, claiming that the expenses of his military wing were “financed by the people of Iran.” This claim has been made in various forms at different times.
An example is the statement made by Ali Safavi, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the National Council of Resistance, which was the political arm of the MKO organization.
He claimed that the campaign in support of the MEK is funded by Iranian Americans, but this claim is refuted by both reports and various testimonies about the group’s wealthy sources. In this report, we examine the sources of income of the MEK as well as the Western and Eastern front companies that provide financial assistance to the group.
After the MEK changed its phase, the group needed income to act against Iran. Extortion from the families of MEK members, selling publications in the West, selling confidential information to Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, the Zionist regime and other countries, and robbing Western chain stores and even universities were part of the strategy to meet the MEK’s financial needs. However, the group’s expenses have been much higher than these methods of generating income.
A member of the MKO terrorist group recently made an interesting revelation about the fundraising for the group through the hypocrisy show, writing:
One of the MKO money laundering techniques is to introduce a person in a room in Albania, with his head and face covered, as one of the supporters. This person claims that such and such a person has donated all his money and gold to the MKO. Then people who themselves have difficulty even meeting their basic needs call and announce that they intend to donate large sums of money, such as $150,000. This show continues, and eventually it becomes difficult to prove that this money came from other sources and that it is all a show.
Recently, the Canadian government has issued serious warnings regarding the activities of the MKO front companies and associations that are part of the money laundering network, such as prohibiting any transfer of money from Canada to Albania in various ways, an issue that is still being implemented, especially during the so-called Gulrizan days. Albania is a country known as a paradise for criminals. The presence of the MKO terrorist group in Albania has facilitated the criminal activities of this terrorist group in the field of crimes such as money laundering, drug trafficking, and human trafficking.
