How does a person get rid of money he obtained through forbidden means?

The Shaykh : However, if a person has become involved in these companies and taken the annual profits, and he knows the amount of the profits such that he is given a table showing the sources of the profit, and he knows that this amount of riba (usury or interest) is bank interest, then he must extract it to rid himself of it, either as charity for the poor, or as a contribution to building a mosque, or as a contribution to printing books, or as a contribution to repairing roads, or something else. This is if he knows the riba interest. As for if he does not know it, then the precaution is to extract half of the profit that comes to him, half of the annual profit that comes to him, without being unjust or harsh.

The presenter : Prepared by the Project of the Senior Scholars of Kuwait, may Allah honor it with tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the Sunnah.