ISS: 26 individuals with terror links have pursued Estonian e-residency

(ERR) Individuals involved in terrorist activities including those with links to groups such as Al-Qaeda, Daesh, Hezbollah, the Taliban and the Muslim Brotherhood have become increasingly interested in Estonia’s e-residency program, the Internal Security Service (ISS) reports.

The ISS, also known by its Estonian acronym Kapo, released its latest yearbook Wednesday, which among many other things reported that 26 people associated with Islamic terror organizations or extremist groups have either applied for e-residency or have actually been granted it.

The yearbook states that terrorist extremists’ motives for ostensibly using the national e-residency program as a means of doing business is to conceal their economic activity from authorities in the states in which they are resident.

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