United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Tuesday sanctions against three individuals for allegedly supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in cybersecurity training and financial facilitation.
Individuals targeted by the sanctions are two Egyptian nationals Mu’min Al-Mawji Mahmud Salim and Sarah Jamal Muhammad Al-Sayyid who were using the Electronic Horizons Foundation (EHF) to offer "cybersecurity guidance and training to ISIS supporters seeking to evade law enforcement scrutiny of their online activities." The third person is Faruk Guzel for serving as a middleman for money ISIS transactions between Syria and Turkey back in 2020.
"Today's actions disrupt ISIS's ability to move funds, including through the use of cryptocurrency, and leverage its online presence to recruit and promote its terrorist ideology … [We are] committed to combatting ISIS's evolving financial methods to deny ISIS access to the global financial system," Under Secretary Brian E. Nelson noted.
