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Suspected Kyrgyz terror financier arrested

Staff Report

BISHKEK -- The Kyrgyz State National Security Committee (GKNB) arrested a Kyrgyz man accused of terror financing, 24.kg reported Friday (February 3), quoting the GKNB press office. The place of arrest was not reported.

The suspect, a 32-year-old native of Osh Province, studied in Egyptian and Syrian religious universities in 2012. He became acquainted with terrorist group leaders there, according to the GKNB. That year he allegedly formed a business in an Arab country to make money that could finance terrorism.

In January 2015 he returned to Kyrgyzstan, where he started his own business and continued to send money to terrorists, the GKNB said.

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