(Stars and Stripes) Polish authorities have charged two Iraqi citizens with financing the Islamic State, following a yearslong investigation into money transfers to a German man who went to Syria to join the terror group.
The two Iraqi men, who were charged on Dec. 14 in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, are accused of acting as middlemen for money transfers sent between February 2015 [and] April 2016 to the man and his wife in Iraq and Syria by relatives in Germany, Poland’s National Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
Family members in Germany sent money to them at least twice, the statement said. Authorities did not name the family or the recipients of the funds, but information in the statement indicates the militant was a man identified in earlier news reports as Mario Sciannimanica.
