(Reuters) A 65-year-old Moroccan citizen was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday after being convicted by a Portuguese court of recruiting young people to fight in Syria.
Abdesselam Tazi was also found guilty by the court in Lisbon of financing the recruitment using forged credit cards.
Portugal’s public prosecutor said Tazi was an intelligent man who recruited the people, mostly from Morocco, to travel to Portugal and then joined Islamic State in Syria.
The court, which found him guilty of a total of seven crimes, found no evidence that Tazi was a member of the militant organization himself.
