The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned South Africa-based ISIS organisers and financial facilitators.
and ISIS-Mozambique financial facilitators based in South Africa.
ISIS branches in Africa rely on local fundraising schemes such as theft, extortion of local populations, and kidnapping for ransom, as well as financial support from the ISIS hierarchy. OFAC named the four South African-based ISIS members — Farhad Hoomer, Siraaj Miller, Abdella Hussein Abadigga, and Peter Charles Mbaga.
Hoomer raised funds through kidnap-for-ransom operations and extortion of major businesses, which provided more than R1 million in revenue for his cell.
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