(AFP) Police briefly detained and questioned the top representative of Spain’s Muslim community as part of an investigation into the funding of jihadist organisations, police and government sources said Wednesday.
Mohammed Ayman Adlbi, who heads the Islamic Commission of Spain, was arrested late Tuesday but later released without charge, a spokeswoman for the national police said.
His arrest was part of an anti-terrorism investigation, an interior ministry source told AFP.
Spanish media said the investigation was focused on an international jihadist funding network that worked for Al-Qaeda and sent money to Syria and other conflict zones.
But neither the police nor the interior ministry would confirm reports about the precise nature of the investigation.
