The U.S. said it seized millions of dollars in cryptocurrency assets and a fake website purporting to sell protective gear in an operation targeting the financial underpinnings of three terrorist groups
The coordinated law-enforcement action targets the donation networks of al Qaeda and the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, as well as a scheme to sell N95 respirator masks to U.S. health-care providers by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the U.S. Justice Department said.
One unsealed complaint targets the website FaceMaskCenter.com, which officials said was part of a scheme by an ISIS facilitator to sell fake N95 masks to customers across the globe, including to a customer in the U.S. who sought to purchase the masks and other protective gear for hospitals, nursing homes and fire departments.
The operation, the largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations’ cryptocurrency accounts, officials said, shows the extent to which terrorist groups have come to rely on cybertools such as virtual currencies to solicit donations to fund their operations. PREVIEWSUBSCRIBE “These terrorist organizations are no different—apart from their ideology—from other organizations whose main goal is profit,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Matthew Albence said Thursday during a conference call with reporters. “Anytime there is a new avenue they can exploit to move money or make money through their criminal enterprises, they are going to utilize it.
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