US military operation in Syria, February 2022.
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Dilkhayot Kasimov, a Brooklyn (NYC) resident from Uzbekistan, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for providing material support to the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, reported the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
According to federal authoritiesthe 34-year-old defendant provided their own money and cash raised from others to help another man, Akhror Saidakhmetov, a travel to syria to fight for ISIS.
The investigation revealed that Kasimov led Saidakhmetov to the JFK International Airport in February 2015 and gave him $1,600 in cash on behalf of himself and other conspiratorsone of them identified as Abror Habibov.
“Kasimov is an ISIS supporter who collected and gave money to someone else to finance his trip to join the terrorist group. With this sentence, Kasimov is being held accountable for his crimes, ”said the deputy prosecutor general of National security, Matthew G. Olsen.
Another defendant, Abdurasul Juraboev, was also sentenced to 15 years in prison, while Azizjon Rakhmatov was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison, it detailed. Fox News.
Habibov and co-defendant Akmal Zakirov are awaiting sentencing. A seventh detainee, Dilshod Khusanov, who was charged separately, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations and is scheduled to be sentenced on July 5.
“(Yesterday’s) sentence demonstrates the significant consequences for those who aid terrorist groups, including by facilitating the travel of others to join ISIS,” said US Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York.
“Kasimov was part of a group of people seeking to travel to Syria to join ISIS or to fund others seeking to become foreign fighters for ISIS. The Department of Justice and our law enforcement partners will continue to work tirelessly to protect our country from terrorists and those who would support them,” added Attorney Peace.
In a related case this week in New York, Fareed Mumuni, aspiring to join the ISIS terrorist movement, He was resentenced to 25 years in prison for attempting to murder an FBI agent. who went to his house to arrest him in 2015. Tuesday’s new measure elevated the original 17-year sentence issued in April 2018after an appeals court ruled that the previous sentence had been too lenient.
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