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LOS ANGELES — More than 100 victims of terrorism in Israel filed a lawsuit Thursday against China’s largest bank demanding the institution stop transferring money to terrorist groups.
The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court claims Bank of China Ltd. transferred millions of dollars to Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad, ignoring demands by Israeli counterterrorism officials to halt the practice.
The bank “knowingly assisted Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to carry out terrorist attacks” and did so through the bank’s U.S. branches even though such transfers are against American law, said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an attorney for the plaintiffs.
Officials from the Bank of China did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
