khan was charged with serving as a front for khashoggi. allegedly, in 2003, khan helped launder us$300 million of money khashoggi made through arms sales through the zurich branch of swiss bank ubs. khashoggi reportedly had to use khan as a front as ubs had blackballed him due to his notoriety. introduced to ubs by khashoggi in 1982, khan enabled the arms dealer to launder funds held in american accounts through ubs geneva. one of khan's accounts eventually was blocked when it was determined that the source of the funds came from khashnoggi's arms sales.