Aug 20, 2026 – 8.00pmWashington | Entrepreneur, champion racing driver, funder of a Palestinian organisation sanctioned by the Trump administration? That’s the bombshell claim made about Yasser Shahin, the Adelaide-based businessman whose family built a near $2 billion fortune with a vast petrol station empire.Now executive chairman of the family’s Peregrine Corporation property development business, Shahin, 49, is a philanthropist and the driving force behind the PFF Charitable Foundation. That charity, according to the New York Post, has been under investigation by Homeland Security officials for possibly violating sanctions put on Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq with cash from its $US100 million ($141 million) “anti-Israel war chest”.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Australian billionaire faces storm over Palestine ‘war chest’
Peregrine Corporation executive chairman Yasser Shahin has found himself the target of a New York tabloid, but denies his charity is giving to a banned group.
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