El Pais reports on new charges against Imad Eddin Barakat (aka Abu Dahdah).
Barakat, a 45-year-old Syrian-born Spanish citizen who is currently serving a 12-year sentence for membership of a terrorist organisation, may stand trial again over alleged payments made while he was in prison in 2006 and 2007 that investigators claim went to finance terrorism.
Judge Moreno has charged Barakat and two alleged accomplices, Mohammed Ghaleb Kalaje and Bassam Dalati, with collaborating with a terrorist group for a second time.
The judge claims that the three used relatives to strip Kalaje's real estate firm of its assets, cashing 33 checks worth EUR 2.4 million over the course of two years.
Apparently prison does nothing to reform jihadis. Who knew?
There's this story from German news agency about three Turkish-born men accused of raising money for a charity "with an Islamic focus," whatever that means:
The Turkish-born men are alleged to have removed 18.6 million euros ($29.7 million) in cash from the bank accounts of German-registered association Deniz Feneri. Prosecutors said some of the cash was smuggled to Turkey.
The charity raised foreign-relief funds among well-off Turkish communities on a Deniz Feneri television program. The title means lighthouse. Advertisements on the Internet, in the press and on a Dutch-based television channel Euro 7 used images of suffering in Turkey, Pakistan and other nations, prosecutors said.
Police established that donations to Deniz Feneri from early 2002 until the end of April 2007, when an inquiry into the charity became public, had totaled 41 million euros.
And AKI reported last week on country-wide raids in Germany "as part of a probe into an alleged radical Islamist group believed to be recruiting militants for 'Jihad' abroad."
The raids were part of an investigation into nine citizens suspected of systematically trying to convert others to radical Islam and recruiting militants for Jihad overseas, according to German authorities quoted by Deutsche Welle Radio.
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