Australian Police Arrest Man Accused of Sending Money to American in Syria
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TkKurikawa/iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(MELBOURNE, Australia) — Australian police arrested a 23-year-old man on Tuesday and charged him with financing terrorism.
According to a media release put out by the Australian Federal Police and the Victoria Police, the unidentified man allegedly made about $12,000 available to an organization that he was aware was a terrorist organization.
The arrest was the result of an operation that got under way earlier this year, when the FBI provided a tip to the Australian Federal police that a Melbourne man was providing funding to a U.S. citizen who later traveled to Syria to participate in the fighting.
AFP National Manager of Counterterrorism Neil Gaughan said that “providing funding is equally criminal as actually travelling to participate and we will use all our resources to cut off the supply of funds to terrorists.”
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