Cash in Swiss account raises question: was Saad’s father helping dictator move his fortune abroad? BY Nigel HorneLAST UPDATED AT 10:07 ON Sun 28 Oct 2012 EVER since the massacre of the al-Hilli family in the woods near Lake Annecy on 5 September, the media have generally accepted the story that Saad al-Hilli’s late father, Kadhim al-Hilli, had “fled” the regime of Saddam Hussein in the late 1970s after falling out with the Ba’ath Party. With his wife Fasiha, and two boys, Zaid and Saad, the Iraqi factory owner came to live in Pimlico, central More…![]()
