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| Military Court Charges 18 with Transferring $19 Million to IS |
| 2017-03-18 |
| [AnNahar] The Military Court on Friday charged 18 people, most of them Syrians, with transferring more than $19 million from Leb to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group, a judicial source said. Fifteen Syrians, one Paleostinian and two others were accused of "belonging to ISIS (IS), creating a money smuggling network and transferring money out of Leb for IS' benefit," the source said. The network had "transferred $19,300,000 to IS in Syria and Iraq from 2014 until now." The suspects were referred to a military investigator for further questioning, the source added. Lebanese security forces in early March raided currency exchange offices and money transfer companies on suspicion they had sent huge sums of money to IS. The judicial source said the accused "rented currency exchange offices from Lebanese nationals at very attractive prices and began transferring money to IS in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Iraq, and Syria." "Each transfer was valued between $10,000 and $100,000... Most of the money would eventually reach IS' stronghold in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Iraq, or in Raqa, Aleppo, Palmyra, or Qalamun in Syria," he said. While money to IS in Iraq was transferred directly, the wires to Syria always went through Turkey first. Leb has been heavily impacted by the war in neighboring Syria since it erupted in March 2011. Security forces have on several occasions incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! suspected IS members, including in February when two men were detained on suspicion of planning an attack in central Beirut. Leb's central bank imposes strict rules on financial institutions intended to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing, including caps on the amount that can be transferred overseas without additional supporting paperwork. |
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