|
Russian suspected of raising funds for ISIS detained in Berlin
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum] German law enforcement agencies have detained a Russian citizen suspected of collecting funds for the terrorist group ISIS. This was reported on January 28 by the Prosecutor General of Germany. “The Prosecutor General’s Office today ordered the detention of a Russian citizen in Berlin on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Germany,” the agency said in a statement. In addition to financing ISIS, the man is suspected of membership in a criminal organization and violating German laws on foreign economic activity. As reported by the Regnum news agency, in July, two Russian citizens were detained in Germany on suspicion of collecting money for ISIS. The arrest was accompanied by searches at sites in Berlin, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony. According to the German investigation, in early summer 2022, these individuals joined a terrorist organization, where they were engaged in collecting funds in Germany and other European countries. In June 2024, a man suspected of having ties to ISIS was detained at Cologne-Bonn Airport in Germany. It was established that the detainee has triple citizenship: Germany, Morocco, and Poland. According to the investigation, in September 2023, the man transferred almost $1,700 through a cryptocurrency exchange to the account of another terrorist group associated with ISIS.
Posted by: badanov 2025-01-29 |
|
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=737662 |