Toronto man charged for alleged ISIS recruitment, fundraising campaign: RCMP | 24CA News
A Toronto man has been arrested and charged with terrorism offences for allegedly serving to to recruit and fundraise for the Islamic State, the RCMP mentioned Friday.
The expenses in opposition to Khalilullah Yousuf come months after he was charged with comparable offences within the United States for allegedly offering monetary help to the terrorist group.
According to an announcement from the RCMP, who say they’ve been investigating Yousuf since March 2021, the 34-year-old allegedly “made and disseminated pro-Islamic State propaganda on social media for the purposes of radicalizing and recruiting people” to hitch the group.
Investigators additionally allege Yousuf conspired with an abroad Islamic State member to “commit terrorist attacks against foreign embassies in Afghanistan,” and supplied propaganda and analysis for comparable assaults in that nation.
Yousuf faces one depend every of facilitating terrorist exercise, collaborating in terrorist group exercise, and offering or making accessible property and providers for terrorist functions.
The facilitation cost carried a most sentence of 14 years in jail. Yousuf faces as much as 10 years in jail if convicted on every of the opposite two expenses.
The RCMP says Yousuf stays in custody pending a future courtroom look.
Last December, Yousuf and three Americans have been arrested and charged in reference to an alleged scheme that posted hyperlinks looking for donations for purported humanitarian causes, solely to distribute the funds to Islamic State fighters.
According to the FBI and U.S. prosecutors in New York, Yousuf and others collected cryptocurrencies, GoFundMe donations and PayPal funds by a crowdfunding community, whereas discussing their fundraising plans on an encrypted social media messaging service with different Islamic State supporters.
The indictment alleges Yousuf alone contributed greater than US$20,000 to a Bitcoin pockets as a part of the scheme, and created a number of pretend GoFundMe accounts that raised tens of hundreds of {dollars}.
Yousuf and the opposite three defendants are awaiting trial in that case.
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