An Ontario man is one of the four people charged in the U.S. for allegedly raising funds to support the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.
by the U.S. Department of Justice, it said that the four accused allegedly collected more than US$35,000 through cryptocurrency and other crowdsourcing campaigns and transferred the proceeds to Bitcoin wallets and accounts, which were believed to be funding the terrorist group.
They were charged with conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The DOJ said Yousuf was arrested on Wednesday by Canadian law enforcement under a provisional arrest from the U.S. In the unsealed documents, it is alleged that Yousuf and Hashimi were part of a group chat referred to as Group Chat-1 on an encrypted social media and mobile messaging electronic communication service that helped connect IS supporters and other groups that adhered to similar violent ideologies.
According to a confidential source who spoke to Facilitator-1 and one of the accused, Facilitator-1 allegedly told them that the descriptions in the fundraising campaigns were a “deception for the infidels” and the “words that are in the link are fake in order to deceive.” Yousuf allegedly contributed $20,347.89 to the Bitcoin campaign. The Ontario man also allegedly created multiple GoFundMe campaigns with one of the other accused, misrepresenting them for charitable causes.
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