Report: Suha to receive $ 22m. a year from PA
Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 11, 2004
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Yasser Arafat's widow, Suha, is expected to receive a sum of $22 million a
year out of the Palestinian Authority budget, according to the Italian
newspaper Corriere De La Serra.

The paper said Suha reached an agreement about the money during a meeting
with Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO's newly elected chairman, who visited while she
was staying next to her husband's bed in the French military hospital
outside Paris.
It said Abbas personally promised Suha that she would receive $22 million a
year to cover her expenses in Paris. The paper noted that in July Arafat
transferred to his wife $11 million to cover her living costs for the first
six months of the year.

Abbas and the Palestinian leadership were forced to strike the deal with
Suha after she refused to allow them to visit her husband in hospital.

The Palestinian leaders reached the conclusion that it would be better to
make a deal with her in order to solve the crisis surrounding Arafat's
possessions and secret bank accounts.

According to Palestinian officials, the money that Suha is expected to
receive will come from secret accounts held by Arafat and his cronies in
various countries. They estimated that at least $4 billion were being held
in these secret accounts.