(NY Daily News) An Uzbekistan citizen living in Brooklyn was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for offering financial support in American dollars to the terrorist group ISIS.
Dilkhayot Kasimov, 34, was convicted for driving to Kennedy Airport in February 2015 with $1,600 cash that he handed directly to an aspiring teen terrorist to cover the youth’s travel and weapons expenses, officials said.
The money was collected from a number of local pro-ISIS figures and delivered by Kasimov during a brief exchange.
“Kasimov was part of a group of individuals who sought to travel to Syria to join ISIS or fund others who sought to become foreign fighters for ISIS,” said Brooklyn US Attorney Breon Peace.
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