Birmingham Muslim School charity employee was pictured ‘assembling firearms in Syria’

Trustees behind the controversial Birmingham Muslim College have been banned from charity administration for at the least ten years – after an investigation discovered footage of workers constructing weapons in Syria. 

The extraordinary photos – which haven’t been revealed – have been found on gadgets seized from the Albayan Training Basis employee’s house by Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands.

They have been taken within the Atma refugee camp in Syria and confirmed the person assembling the firearms, after he had initially travelled to Turkey earlier than crossing over in 2015.

Their existence have been revealed for the primary time immediately in a Charity Fee evaluation into the AEF.

It was was the charity which ran BMS in Small Heath, West Mids, underneath the management of head trainer Janet Legal guidelines, who can be identified by Aisha Abdrabba.

Authorities inspectors shut the college down after fears of extremism and stated workers weren’t awake to ‘dangers of pupils being radicalised’.

Now Ms Legal guidelines and the 2 different AEF trustees Ahmed Abdulhafeth and Ali Qasem have been banned from any charity administration for 12 and ten years respectively.

At one level her husband Ghoma Abdrabba – also called Ghunia Abdrabba – was recognized as BMS’s proprietor on the Division for Training database.

In February 2006, Mr Abdrabba was named on a US Treasury listing as a fundraiser for the Libyan Islamic Preventing Group (LIFG), a ‘brutal terrorist organisation’ organisation that had been in partnership with Al-Qaeda.

He efficiently appealed to have his title faraway from the listing and has at all times denied terror hyperlinks. He instructed Ofsted in 2017 he had ‘nothing to do’ with the Birmingham Muslim College however was nonetheless formally listed as a proprietor.

Albayan Training Basis was charity behind controversial Birmingham Muslim College

Ghoma Abdrabba – also called Ghunia Abdrabba – was recognized as BMS’s proprietor on the Division for Training database

Stephen Roake, Head of Compliance, Visits and Inspections on the Charity Fee, stated of the ruling on the AEF: ‘The general public expects trustees to hold out their authorized duties with the utmost respect for the necessary function they maintain.

‘The trustees of this charity didn’t perform their authorized duties.

‘Repeatedly failing to satisfy the requirements required of their function in managing the charity’s college and exhibiting a regarding lack of oversight in relation to the charity’s operations abroad.

An aerial view taken with a drone reveals tents of internally displaced Syrians on the Atma refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border

‘What we discovered right here raised severe regulatory considerations in regards to the charity’s operation and, in relation to its abroad work, affirms precisely why a charity will need to have sturdy controls in place, particularly when it operates in high-risk areas of the world. 

‘It’s proper that we’ve disqualified the people chargeable for this conduct from trusteeship and holding senior administration features at a charity.’

The charity’s most up-to-date monetary returns submitted to the Charity Fee, for the 12 months as much as June 2019, reveal it acquired an earnings of £305,800 and spent £290,900.

Most of its earnings was from donations, together with by a charity store and drop-off level it runs within the metropolis. Its headquarters is listed as the identical tackle as the college.

It additionally runs a charity store and a donation level and workplace. The charity’s main actions are listed as ‘provision of aid to needy from hardship, misery, help for medical and academic assist and communal assist for provide of recent water.’

Its charitable work is primarily carried out overseas, in Syria and Yemen, although it additionally lists actions within the UK together with help for the homeless and refugees.

Throughout the 12 months as much as June 2019 the charity acquired college charges totalling £94,745 and charitable donations of £211,104.

Of its whole earnings, solely £70,203 is listed within the accounts as going to ‘donations and charitable initiatives’.

The remaining seems to be for operating prices, together with £100,066 on ‘hire, charges, water and insurances.’

A complete of £74,096 is listed as workers wages and social safety prices for 16 workers.