terrorist-finance
12 July 2024
Dutch court convicts man for making funds available to designated person
The Rotterdam District Court has convicted a man for ‘making money available to a person on the National Sanctions List for Terrorism,’ based on a €350 transfer to Syria he made through the informal ‘hawala’ money transfer system, while acquitting him on another charge of funding the Islamic State (‘IS’ or ‘ISIS’).
The individual, whose name was not disclosed by the court, was acquitted of the funding charge because of ‘insufficient evidence that the suspect knew or should have suspected that the money he transferred to Syria and Turkey could end up with IS.’
He was also acquitted of another charge of being part of an informal ‘hawala’ money transfer network linked to ISIS and banking without a licence. He was sentenced to 60 hours of community service, minus time spent in custody.
