21 Facts About Youssef Nada

Youssef Moustafa Ali Nada was an Egyptian businessman and Muslim Brotherhood financial strategist.

Youssef Nada was alleged to have financed activities of al Qaeda, charges Youssef Nada vehemently denied.

In 2008, Youssef Nada raised a case against Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, a body of the Council of Europe.

On 12 September 2012, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Youssef Nada, citing that Youssef Nada's human rights had been violated, in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Youssef Nada was born on 17 May 1931 in Alexandria, Egypt.

Between 1952 and 1954, Youssef Nada was imprisoned with 300,000 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in a desert-based Egyptian military concentration camp.

In 1961, a close friend of Youssef Nada's invited him to Libya where a construction boom was developing.

Youssef Nada seized on the occasion and started to spend his time between Libya and Austria.

Youssef Nada had tremendous business success in his ventures with Saudi Arabia, Libya and eventually, the Nigerian government.

Youssef Nada became one of the members wanted by the Egyptians.

Youssef Nada lived in Campione, a small Italian 'enclave' adjacent to the Swiss canton of Ticino.

Youssef Nada has a son Hazim Youssef Nada, born in Silver Spring, Maryland, who founded a commodities-trading business in 2008 to support his studies.

Youssef Nada became victim of a United Arab Emirates funded smear campaign by a Geneva-based private intelligence firm named Alp Services of Mario Brero, exposed in a March 2023 article in the New Yorker.

Youssef Nada died in Switzerland on 22 December 2024, at the age of 93.

Youssef Nada claimed further that the London-based newspaper which made the allegations had links to Arab governments opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Youssef Nada totally disputed both the document and the conspiracies.

Youssef Nada said that the aforementioned stories were fabrications, made for political purposes.

Beyond this, Youssef Nada says that from mid-1997, numerous western journalists appeared to be acting in the service of various foreign intelligence agencies in the Middle East, supporting claims that benefitted certain regimes in the Arab world and that such journalists knew well were false.

In 2009, Youssef Nada was removed from the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267 terror blacklist.

Youssef Nada noted that the trial was held before a military tribunal even though he was a civilian, and therefore called the proceedings into question as being an unfair trial.

Investigations of the case, and the injustices suffered by Youssef Nada, who has never been proven to have any links to Al Qaeda, nor the Taliban, were the focal point of a two-year PACE human rights investigation.