A secret e-mail of the former US Minister for Foreign Affairs Hillary Clinton, revealed that Qatar gave one million dollars to her husband the former US president Bill Clinton in 2012 as a gift in his birthday, through his charity foundation.

According to the leaked e-mail, which was published by WikiLeaks after hacking from the account of John Podesta, the director of Hillary Clinton's 2016 electoral campaign, Qatar promised Clinton this payment in 2011, but gave it to the foundation in 2012.

"The ambassador asked to see WJC (William Jefferson Clinton) for five minutes in New York City to give him a $1 million check, which Qatar promised on the occasion of WJC's birthday in 2011," said Amitabh Desai, the official in the organization on the e-mail.

"Clinton hid the money in a moral breach by the former Secretary of State, especially after signing the moral document in 2009 while she was in her ministerial portfolio and pledged to inform the state of any donations or funds from foreign sources.

The Clinton Foundation confirmed that it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar when Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State, without informing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, even though she pledged to allow the review of new donations from foreign governments.

According to the Foundation's website, which lists donors in broad categories according to the amount of the donation, the Qatari government provided between $1 million and $5 million over years.

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