Moroccan Brothers Arrested for Allegedly Funding Fighters in Syria and Iraq

The continuous efforts made by the security services in monitoring suspicious funds and drying up the sources of terrorist financing are bearing fruit.

Proof of this, an investigation by elements of the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) and the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) led to the arrest of two brothers suspected of having illegally transferred funds to Moroccan fighters in Syria and Iraq.

In detail, the ongoing investigation showed that the two suspects had opened bank accounts to receive funds and transfer them to fighters, in this hotbed of tension, after converting them into virtual currencies through intermediaries against commissions, said the DGSN.

The investigations proved conclusive. One of the arrested persons was indeed in contact with an Iraqi citizen who had been arrested in Casablanca on February 6 by the BNPJ, before being placed in pre-trial detention for his involvement in the same suspicious financial activities.

For now, the two accused have been taken into custody. The investigation continues to know the contours of this case.