In brief The US Department of Justice said a combined operation has led to its largest seizure of terrorist-owned cryptocurrency, taking around $2m (£1.5m) from Hamas’s military wing, al-Qaeda, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
In addition to the seized accounts, prosecutors filed indictments against a pair of men based in Turkey who were said to be overseeing the fundraising online.
While most of the accounts were funded by straightforward donation pages, asking visitors to contribute to murderous causes, one of the sites run by the group was, according to the Feds, actually a fraud operation. Posing as a medical mask and PPE supplier, the site claimed it sold watchdog-approved face masks, of which it had "unlimited" quantities; prosecutors said it was a con. The operation converted its ..
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