Madrid (EFE) finance their terrorist activities.
With a request from the prosecutor of 9 years in prison, Abdel Bary, who was arrested in 2020 in Almería, sits on the bench with two other accused of a crime of integration into a terrorist organization.
According to the prosecutor’s provisional conclusions brief, Abdel Bary moved from the United Kingdom to Syria in August 2013 to fight with the Islamic State, to which he acknowledged belonging on various occasions on his social networks.
He traveled there with a friend and both joined the Al Furqan Army, a terrorist faction of Al Qaeda that sometimes acted with Daesh in certain actions, although after the death of his friend in a US drone attack in 2015. He traveled to Turkey until in 2020 he went to Algeria.
“Criminal Structure”
During those years, the public ministry indicates, the defendant created “a criminal structure with a vocation of permanence over time” in order to commit bank fraud through the system known as “carding” (accessing bank cards illegally to carry out small purchases), which allowed them to “finance their terrorist activities.”
For this, the other two defendants, Abderrezak Seddiki and Kossaila Chollouah, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office requests 8 and 7 years in prison, considering that they formed a group that assumed and participated in “the means and procedures” of Daesh “with the ultimate goal of consolidating an Islamic caliphate governed by the Koran and the Sharia”.
The rapper allegedly led the group and was engaged in acquiring previously stolen financial data on the “Darkweb”, the “dark internet”.
Then, the defendant Chollouah “managed to convert the money defrauded and converted into cryptocurrencies by Abdel Bary and Seddiki into money that could be used again.”