The Ruling on Disposing of Riba Money

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: A person has riba (usury or interest) money and wants to get rid of it. Is it permissible for him to give this riba money to a person who is in debt, with the intention of disposing of this riba money?

Answer:
If he repents from riba and he has money he acquired from riba or from other forbidden sources, and he has money he obtained from forbidden earnings, he disposes of it by placing it in one of the public projects, like lost money that has no owner.
Not as charity, but as something like lost money that has no owner. This is placed in public projects to be benefited from. And if he sees that a person is poor, that his poverty is severe, and that he has debts.
And he has been demanded to pay them but has no means to settle them, there is no harm in helping him from it. Not with the intention that he will receive reward or charity for it, but rather that he is disposing of money that belongs to no one.

The presenter:
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