Al-Qaeda is secretly investing in blue-chip Australian stocks and using the profits to help finance terrorism.
British intelligence agencies have established the terror group is also targeting top technology and defence corporations in Australia, Singapore and other Pacific Rim countries.
They say al-Qaeda is laundering billions of dollars it earns through drug-running, with the help of China’s Secret Intelligence Service.
US Treasury agents, working closely with European intelligence services, believe more than $1 billion AUS has been invested in stocks by al-Qaeda since the start of the year.
The money has been laundered through unsuspecting banks as far apart as Australia, Japan, Germany and Ireland.
