{"id":128877,"date":"2025-05-09T04:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128877"},"modified":"2025-05-09T04:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:20:37","slug":"us-man-who-sent-crypto-to-isis-could-serve-prison-till-hes-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128877","title":{"rendered":"US man who sent crypto to ISIS could serve prison till he\u2019s 65"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsA man from the US state of Virginia will spend over three decades behind bars after being convicted of sending crypto to the terrorist organization commonly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
\nFederal Judge David Novak sentenced Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa to 30 years and four months in prison on May 7 for sending over $185,000 to the Islamic State, the Department of Justice said on May 8.
\nProsecutors said that from around October 2019 until October 2022, the 35-year-old Chhipa collected and sent money to female Islamic State members in Syria, which helped them escape prison camps and funded fighting.
\nThe Justice Department said Chhipa would raise funds for the United Nations-designated terror organization through social media \u2014 receiving money online, or traveling hundreds of miles to accept donations in person.\u00a0
\nHe\u2019d convert the money into crypto and send it to Turkey for it to be smuggled to Islamic State members across the border in Syria, prosecutors said.
\nA federal jury convicted Chhipa in December, finding him guilty on a charge of conspiracy to provide support to a terrorist organization and four charges of providing and attempting to provide support to a terrorist organization.
\nAn undated picture of Chhipa, a naturalized US citizen born in India. Source: Alexandria Sheriff\u2019s Office via TRM\u201cThis defendant directly financed ISIS in its efforts to commit vile terrorist atrocities against innocent citizens in America and abroad,\u201d Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. \u201cThis severe sentence illustrates that if you fund terrorism, we will prosecute you and put you behind bars for decades.\u201d
\nChhipa tried to flee US during FBI probe
\nProsecutors said that during the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into Chhipa, he tried to flee the country to escape prosecution and tried to hide his tracks through a series of actions seemingly aimed at confusing authorities.
\nAccording to a motion for detention filed in August, FBI agents searched Chhipa\u2019s house on Aug. 2, 2019, and that night Chhipa drove to a bank, withdrew $1,800 from an ATM, and then went to a Taco Bell, where he paid a stranger for a ride to a relative\u2019s house. The relative then drove him to a grocery store.
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\nThree days later, prosecutors said Chhipa \u201cpurchased a series of bus tickets using variations and\/or misspelling of his name and recently created email accounts.\u201d
\nHe then travelled from Virginia to Mexico and onto Guatemala. He then bought tickets to fly from Guatemala to Panama, then onto Germany, and then to Egypt, but an Interpol Blue Notice was issued, and he was returned to the US.
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