US Sanctions Hamas-Linked Network Accused of Moving Over USD 2 Million Through Sham Charities, Crypto
Republicworld · International
- Arabic title
- عقوبات أمريكية تستهدف شبكة مرتبطة بحماس متهمة بتحويل أكثر من مليوني دولار عبر جمعيات خيرية وهمية والعملات المشفرة
- English title
- US Sanctions Hamas-Linked Network Accused of Moving Over USD 2 Million Through Sham Charities, Crypto
- Published
- UTC
- Governorate
- Damascus
From the text
Washington DC: The United States has imposed sanctions on a member of Hamas's military wing, two France-based individuals and two affiliated entities over what the US Department of the Treasury described as a multi-year financing network that moved more than USD 2 million to Hamas through purported charities and cryptocurrency channels. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the designations on Friday (local time), saying that the action exposed a financing architecture that used deceptive charitable fronts and cryptocurrency to raise and transfer f…source ↗