Federal authorities said they had seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency allegedly destined for the Hamas terror group.
The FBI seized website domains and servers used to raise funds and recruit members for the Hamas military wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday.
“A message to Hamas: We will stop your fundraising for terror,” said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro for the District of Columbia. “Your networks are not secure, your crypto is vulnerable, and we will not stop until your ability to wage war is defeated.”
Investigators used information from multiple human sources to trace and seize cryptocurrency intended to support Hamas’s military wings under three unsealed warrants issued last year, the DOJ said….