What Charities aren't intended to do

I recently read an article in the BBC about a British charity, the head of which is implicated in procuring a weapons cache found at a Madrassa in Bangladesh. What has this to do with the law, CLE's or the US?

I once met a group of foreign gentlemen who were setting up a non-profit; based on what they had to say about it, it seemed that their objective was to overthrow the current government from their country of origin. You know, usual banana-republic type story with despotic regime overthrown and new regime as despotic or more so than the last.

Because the country in question is poor and the infrastructure isn't as sophisticated as that of the US in the 19th century, combined with the government experience of these gents, they had a far-reaching agenda. Did I mention that in large part these were former government employees? So, rather than starting small with their non-profit, they had a lot of big ideas. Great ideas but no funding for them and because they had been government employees, no understanding that they weren't going to be as big as say, the Red Cross immediately; the more I talked to them, the more it seemed like their true objective was to overthrow the current government of their former country. I'm not aware of immediate plans that they had, it was just the impression I got, based on the breadth of their plans for the country.

It was interesting to me to see a parallel in the story about the UK charity and its jihadist Madrassa. I guess it isn't unreasonable to get the idea that a charity would be used for improper purposes.