Khair Mundos is a key leader and financier of
the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf Group. Mundos’s May 2004 arrest on the first-ever money laundering charges against terrorists grew out of an investigation initiated by the US Government in coordination with Philippine officials. While in police custody, Mundos confessed to having arranged the transfer of funds from al-Qa‘ida to Abu Sayyaf Group leader Khadafi Janjalani to be used in bombings and other criminal acts throughout Mindanao. In February 2007, Mundos escaped from a provincial jail in Kidapawan. Because of his leadership position in the Abu Sayyaf Group, whose terrorist attacks have resulted in the deaths of US and Filipino citizens, US authorities consider Mundos to be a threat to US and Filipino citizens
and interests.

Mundos is believed to be hiding in southern Mindanao.