Dallah Avco is an aviation-services company founded in 1975 with extensive contracts with the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation.
A sister concern of Dallah Avco also conducts construction and maintenance contracts in the two holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
[citation needed] The Dallah Avco fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2017):[1] Dallah Avco is described in redacted documents released by the FBI in September 2021[2] as having had approximately fifty "ghost employees", all of whom were paid by the company and yet did not show up to work.
Bayoumi was reportedly paid a stipend of US$3,000 per month by Dallah Avco, although the company has claimed he was actually an employee of the Saudi government.
[3] Dallah Avco is one of 10 defendants[4] in a $4.2 billion lawsuit over the attacks which the Supreme Court allowed to proceed in 2014,[5] and whose quest for answers the United States Congress supported in 2016 by passing the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.