Spanish Court Tries Moroccan Man for Allegedly Funding ISIS Travel to Syria

Before the court, the Spanish Public Prosecutor’s Office requested a sentence of ten years in prison for "financing of terrorism", reports the Spanish website, COPE. In addition to this prison sentence, the defendant was fined 25,319 euros and given 7 years of probation.

According to the same media, the defendant would have made "constant money deposits, for a total amount of 6,329 euros, to cover the travel expenses of his ex-wife to Syria via Turkey and to join the armed jihad group".

This amount would have been paid between March and November 2016. For the Spanish website, the money transfers of the defendant, which would be about a dozen, would also benefit third parties.

The defendant, faced with the quarterly limit for international transfers, would have asked a person to send 500 € to the same destination. The individual is "now a protected witness", specifies the same source.