A person from the US state of Virginia will spend more than three decades behind the bars after being convicted of crypto transmission to terrorist organizations commonly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Punished by Federal Judge David Novak Says on May 8.
Prosecutors said that from October 2019 to October 2022, the 35-year-old Chhipa collected and sent money to female members of the Islamic State in Syria, who helped them escape prison camps and funded the fight.
The Justice Department said Chhipa would raise funds for the organization appointed by the United Nations via social media-receiving money online, or traveling hundreds of miles to accept donations in person.
He will convert the money to the crypto and send it to Turkey so that it can be mmuggled with members of the Islamic State throughout the border in Syria, the prosecutors said.
A federal jury condemned Chhipa in December, finding him guilty on a conspiracy charge to provide support to a terrorist organization and four charges of providing and attempting to provide support to a terrorist organization.
“This defendant is the ISIS directly financially in its efforts to make bad terrorist cruelty against innocent people in America and abroad,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “This serious sentence describes that if you fund terrorism, we will accuse you and put you behind the bars for decades.”
Chhipa tried to flee us during the FBI investigation
Prosecutors said that during the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation, he tried to escape the country to escape persecution and tried to hide his tracks through a series of actions that seemed to aim for the authorities to confuse.
According to a movement For the detention filed in August, FBI agents searched for Chhipa's house on August 2, 2019, and that night Chhipa boarded a bank, withdraws $ 1,800 from an ATM, and then went to a taco bell, where he paid a stranger to ride a relative's house. The relative then drove him out of a grocery store.
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Three days later, prosecutors said Chhipa was to “buy a series of bus tickets using the differences and/or incorrect writing of her name and recently created email accounts.”
Then he traveled from Virginia to Mexico and went to Guatemala. Then he bought tickets to fly from Guatemala to Panama, then went to Germany, and then to Egypt, but released an interpol blue notice, and he returned to the US.
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