Championship runners-up Sheffield United received a £3m loan from the family of Osama Bin Laden, a court has been told.
The co-owners of the newly-promoted Premier League side, Kevin McCabe and Prince Abdullah Bin Mosaad Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, are currently in a High court battle for control of the Yorkshire outfit.
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The relationship of the pair broke down two years ago and the case centres around the terms of a buyout provision in their initial investment agreement from 2013.
Today, the fourth day of the hearing, the court was presented with evidence regarding a £3m loan from Prince Abdullah which, his barrister said, links the club to relatives of Bin Laden.
The court was also shown an email between McCabe and Jeremy Tutton, a director of the Blades, in which Tutton says he would hate to see headlines claiming the club "launders money for extremists".
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McCabe dismissed the exchange as "banter", though Andreas Gledhill QC, who is leading Prince Abdullah’s legal team, claimed that this shows he knew the source of the money.
However, McCabe claims that Prince Abdullah said the loan would never need to be repaid.
The trail is expected to last for several weeks.
