The us Department of justice is trying to seize bitcoins from 155 addresses that were allegedly used by al-Qaeda to Finance terrorism. This is reported by CoinDesk.
In a motion for confiscation filed on August 13 in the district of Columbia district court, the FBI, the national security investigations Division and the internal revenue Service allege that al-Qaeda conducted a sophisticated money laundering operation through a network of channels in Telegram. These channels were used to collect donations in bitcoins for the purpose of financing terrorism.
The document emphasizes that al-Qaeda and its associated terrorist groups posed as charitable organizations.
Using third-party Analytics SOFTWARE, investigators identified 155 different addresses allegedly linked to these organizations. They have been operated on for the past 18 months.
The amount of funds at the addresses specified in the document is not disclosed.
The fact that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups receive funding in cryptocurrency, using the telegram messenger, was announced in August last year by the Institute for media research of the Middle East (MEMRI).
