Tweet Two Somali women, who became US naturalized citizens, were convicted today in federal court in Minnesota of terrorist financing for providing material support to al-Shabaab, a listed terrorist entity in both the US and Canada. The two women collected funds from Somali foreign nationals in Canada and the US during a three year period […]
Tweet The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to Mohammed Khawaja to appeal the decision of Ontario Court of Appeal that upheld his conviction for terrorist activity financing and other terrorism-related charges under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The Ontario Court of Appeal called Khawaja’s initial 101/2 year sentence manifestly unfit and substituted it for a sentence of […]
Tweet The Court of Appeal for British Columbia has upheld a six month prison sentence imposed on a former Sri Lankan refugee in Canada for terrorist activity financing. In 2008, Prapaharan Thambaithurai solicited funds from members of the Tamil community in Vancouver to support the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a designated terrorist group in […]
Tweet The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction, and doubled the sentence of, Mohammad Khawaja, an Ottawa native, for terrorist financing and other terrorism-related charges. Calling Khawaja’s 10½ year sentence “manifestly unfit”, the Court substituted his previous sentence to a sentence of life imprisonment plus 24 years to be served concurrently. Khawaja is […]
Tweet The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld an order extraditing Suresh Sriskandarajah, also known as “Waterloo Suresh”, to the U.S. to face allegations of terrorist financing and money laundering. Sriskandarajah is a Sri Lankan former refugee who immigrated to Canada twenty years ago. He was arrested in 2006 as a result of a joint […]
Tweet Suresh Sriskandarajah, also know as “Waterloo Suresh,” a Sri Lankan refugee to Canada being sought by the U.S. on terrorism and money laundering charges, is free on bail while the Ontario Court of Appeal decides whether to allow his appeal of a decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granting an order committing […]
Tweet Three Canadian citizens, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, 30 and Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, both of Ottawa and Khurram Syed Sher, 28, of London, Ont., have been charged in an alleged terrorism plot in Canada. Alizadeh, the alleged ring-leader of the group, is also charged with terrorist financing for allegedly making property or financial services available to […]
Tweet The Royal Bank of Scotland has been fined £5.6 million by the UK regulatory agency for failing to implement key anti-money laundering requirements. The fine is the largest ever levied by the Financial Services Regulator. The Bank failed to adequately screen its customers and their transactions to ensure there were no ties to listed […]
Tweet The European Parliament approved a five-year agreement with the U.S. for the transfer of financial and other information collected by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) to the U.S. SWIFT is a Belgium-based financial messaging company that operates a financial transfer network used by 8,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries. The network […]
Tweet According to a report by Foreign Policy, Al-Qaeda has been financially weakened by international efforts to combat terrorist financing but the Taliban still has plenty of money. The news stems from a talk given by David Cohen, the assistant treasury secretary for terrorist financing, at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Al-Qaeda groups […]