4 radicalised Bangladeshi men jailed for 2-5 years for financing terrorism

SINGAPORE: Four Bangladeshi nationals who plotted to finance terror attacks in Bangladesh were sentenced to between 24 and 60 months' jail on Tuesday (Jul 12). This is the first conviction under the Terrorism (Suppression of Financing) Act.

The men – Rahman Mizanur, Miah Rubel, Md Jabath Kysar Haje Norul Islam Sowdagar and Sohel Hawlader Ismail Hawlader – pleaded guilty in May to one or two counts each of providing or collecting hundreds of dollars to fund terror attacks in Bangladesh. When they appeared in a District Court on Tuesday, they were flanked by 11 Gurkhas.

They are part of a group of eight detained in April under Singapore’s Internal Security Act, because of their support for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and their readiness to use violence overseas, the Ministry of Home Affairs had said.

THEY FORMED ‘LONE WOLF PRO-ISIS TERRORIST GROUP’

Prosecutors said the men had formed and financed a “lone wolf pro-ISIS terrorist group”, which they christened the Islamic State in Bangladesh, intending to eventually join ISIS.

The group’s ringleader, Rahman Mizanur, 31, had tried to join ISIS thrice, but was unable to obtain a visa to travel to Turkey and Algeria, prosecutors said.

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