Long Island, New York: a lady is looking up to 110 years in prison subsequent to endeavoring to send $150,000 in Bitcoin and altcoins to ISIS.
The New York Post detailed how Zoobia Shahnaz tricked banks into giving her advances and Visas, which she at that point used to buy digital forms of money. The advance Shahnaz secured added up to $22,500, while a few charge cards added to a further $62,000 in cryptographic money sent to another country to help the psychological oppressor association.
Shahnaz, a US national, already filled in as a lab professional in a Manhattan doctor's facility. A year ago she made a trip to Jordan to work with the Syrian American Medical Society as a volunteer doctor in Syrian evacuee camps where, as indicated by court reports, ISIS had "huge impact."
In July of this current year, the ISIS supporter was halted and addressed in JFK Airport, clearly on her approach to Syria and kept from boarding. She was then captured this Wednesday and accused of bank extortion and numerous tallies of tax evasion, Acting US Attorney Bridget Rohde said in an announcement from the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday.
The DOJ laid out Shahnaz's exercises as takes after:
"...The respondent swindled various money related foundations and acquired over $85,000 in illegal continues, which she changed over to Bitcoin and different cryptographic forms of money. She at that point washed and exchanged the assets out of the nation to help the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham [ISIS]"
A similar articulation guarantees that Shahnaz was kept from achieving her objectives in supporting ISIS, however to what degree stays vague. In the announcement, the FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney triumphantly expressed:
"The FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force kept this lady from her hazardous and conceivably fatal objective. We will do everything we can to stop the following individual wanting to do likewise."
As indicated by the announcement, if sentenced, Shahnaz faces a greatest of 30 years for the bank misrepresentation charge and 20 years on every tax evasion tally.
Crypto's PR troubles
The occasions are a hit to Bitcoin advocates, who have been attempting to safeguard the digital currency's notoriety from its introduction to the world. Bitcoin cynics frequently guarantee that the digital money empowers unlawful exercises, including illegal tax avoidance and support of fear mongering.
As far as psychological oppression, investigators have discovered that digital currency does not assume a noteworthy part in financing fear based oppressor associations. Be that as it may, Shahnaz's case, however detached, absolutely conflicts with digital money's notoriety.
Following the assaults in Europe this Summer, the European Union is looking to comprehend the degree to which crypto is involved in financing fear monger gatherings, and conceivably to diminish the namelessness of digital currency exchanges however much as could be expected. 