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| Russian suspected of raising funds for ISIS detained in Berlin | |
| 2025-01-29 | |
| 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.
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| Posted by:badanov |
| #5 The Berliner Zeitung informs us that Mr. D. is 35 and from Chechnya, adding Already on the 25th. In July, two alleged members of the financing work had been arrested in the district of the Herzogtum Lauenburg (Schleswig-Holstein) and in Hamburg. At the same time, seven objects in Berlin, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony were searched on that day on behalf of the Federal Prosecutor's Office. On 1. In August, another suspect was arrested in Berlin. All three are also said to come from Chechnya. They are in pre-trial detention. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-01-29 11:10 |
| #4 Key bits from EC’s link, in addition to the photo: The Russian national Zelimkhan D. was part of a financing network for the terrorist militia. He is said to have organized donation collections mainly in the Berlin area and managed one of the joint donation funds. He had participated in several transactions in favor of the IS in the amount of a total of more than 60,000 euros, according to the investigators. The group collected donations mainly through social media and forwarded them partly through middlemen to IS members abroad. "The money mainly benefited IS female members in Kurdish detention camps and IS fighters," according to the Federal Prosecutor's Office. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-01-29 11:04 |
| #3 Picture |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-01-29 08:10 |
| #2 The name is Zelimkhan D. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2025-01-29 08:07 |
| #1 I notice no names are given - so, I'm assuming, Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-01-29 03:51 |