Posts Tagged ‘financing’
Sweden jails Kurd for financing terrorism after Turkey calls for crackdown
A Swedish court has jailed a Kurdish man for four-and-a-half years for crimes including attempting to finance terrorism. It is the first time Sweden’s updated terror laws have been used in a case involving the Kurdish militant PKK. Turkey has long called on Stockholm to crack down on Kurdish separatists. Sweden’s bid to join Nato…
Read MorePfizer, AstraZeneca and others ask US Supreme Court to bar Iraq terrorism funding claims
More than 20 U.S. and European pharmaceutical and medical-device makers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bar claims that the companies helped to fund terrorism that killed or injured hundreds of American service members during the war in Iraq. The companies, part of five corporate families — AstraZeneca (AZN.L), Pfizer (PFE.N), GE Healthcare USA,…
Read MoreMassachusetts Man Arrested for Knowingly Concealing the Source of Material Support or Resources to a Foreign Terrorist Organization
A Wakefield, Mass. man was arrested today for knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources that he intended to go to a foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Mateo Ventura, 18, was charged today in a criminal complaint with one count of knowingly concealing the source of…
Read MoreGermany arrests 7 people accused of jointly raising $73,000 for ISIS
Seven people in four German states were arrested Wednesday and are being held on suspicion of providing monetary support to the Islamic State terrorist group. Four arrests took place in North Rhine-Westphalia and one each in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rheinland-Pfalz and Bremen, the Karlsruhe-based federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement Wednesday. The three men and four…
Read MoreFBI Raids Springfield Apartment in ISIS Investigation
A Virginia man allegedly funded ISIS members and made threats against the U.S. The FBI arrested 33-year-old Mohammed Chhipa Thursday and charged him with providing or attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist group. An affidavit filed in federal court claims Chhipa made multiple social media posts sympathizing with ISIS. The FBI…
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