The US case against James ‘Fergie’ Cox Chambers turns on ten transfers made from Bank of America to Banque Internationale Arabe de Túnez between March 2024 and April 2025, after he fled the country. US authorities say the requested funds were sent to Tunisia and Palestine and may have reached terrorist organisations. Chambers was arrested in Ibiza in July 2026 while with his family. On 10 November, the Fiscalía de la Audiencia Nacional backed his extradition, saying the conduct alleged by US authorities corresponds to offences under Spanish law. The National Court hearing was scheduled for 13 November.
The Fiscalía’s report, covered by elDiario.es, says the alleged conduct includes terrorist financing. It also identifies offences involving terrorist damage and public disorder, alongside alleged membership of a terrorist group. These are the prosecutor’s assessment of the US allegations, not a final ruling on Chambers’s guilt or an order to surrender him.
The report says the extradition requirements are met: the alleged acts are crimes in both countries, the relevant penalties exceed one year in prison and the offences have not become time-barred. It also states that the offence cited in the request is neither political nor military. The prosecutor’s position is subject to consideration by the National Court, which must also hear the defence’s objections.
US authorities allege that Chambers intended to use funds from his family fortune to support violent actions benefiting Hamás. The Fiscalía’s account says his public statements showed he understood the risk that his money could provide material support to the group, including through organisations described as charities. The extradition reporting also identifies alleged money laundering linked to activities authorities say benefited organisations associated with Hamás.
The report also says the US case cites Chambers’s public support for Hamás’s October 2023 attack, expressed three days after it took place. It refers to 2024 meetings at Iran’s embassy and chats attributed to associates, which the report says point to an effort to use his money in global terrorist activities. According to the prosecutor’s account reported by Democrata, Chambers transferred $20,000 to the Alliance for Global Justice after a visit to an embassy and had previously provided $40,000 through the Alliance to Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Solidarity Network. The two payments described amount to $60,000. The Alliance for Global Justice acts as a fiscal sponsor for multiple groups, including Samidoun.
The US case reportedly rests on a sealed criminal complaint, rather than a grand-jury indictment, and an affidavit by a single FBI agent. Separate US allegations include riot and conspiracy to riot in connection with a 2023 protest in New Hampshire and demonstrations against Israeli defence company Elbit. Authorities allege Chambers helped fund legal fees for activists arrested during late-2023 protests. These remain allegations in the US case.
Chambers’s legal team, including the firm Ilocad, has challenged the Spanish translations of the US documents, alleging that changes made the accusations appear more serious. The defence identified disputed references to violence, including fires and explosive attacks, that it says were absent from the English originals. Lawyers reportedly filed a 21-page application seeking corrected translations. Chambers’s attorney Aitor Martínez and the defence have alleged bad faith by US authorities; the accusation has not been resolved by the Spanish court.
The request concerns extradition to face US allegations, distinct from the expulsion proposal discussed in RUSSPAIN.COM’s earlier report on Feijóo. The Fiscalía’s report said Chambers opposed being sent to the US and was in provisional detention while awaiting the extradition hearing.
