(Reuters) A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday overturned a seven-year sentence handed down to an Uzbek man by a lower court for plotting to carry out a bombing in the name of Islamic State.
While the Svea Appeals Court freed David Idrisson, a 46-year-old Uzbek citizen who has lived in Sweden since 2008, over the charge of preparing an attack, it upheld his conviction for financing terrorism.
“The evidence that the Appeals Court has seen is not sufficient to convict him … of preparing a terrorist crime,” judge Ragnar Palmkvist said in a statement.
In 2018, prosecutors charged Idrisson and two other men with acquiring and storing large quantities of chemicals and other equipment with intent to cause death and injury.
