Hamas Won't Like What the Justice Department Just Did

Jeff Charles / Townhall Tipsheet 

 

The Justice Department on Thursday announced that it has disrupted a scheme to finance terrorist group Hamas.

The DOJ seized a little over $200,000 in cryptocurrency that was supposed to go toward funding Hamas, according to a press release.

"As alleged in court documents, a group chat claiming association with Hamas on an encrypted communications platform provided Hamas supporters worldwide with a changing set of at least 17 cryptocurrency addresses. Supporters were encouraged to donate money to those addresses. Those funds were sent into an operational wallet and laundered through a series of virtual currency exchanges and transactions by leveraging suspected financiers and over-the-counter brokers. More than a million dollars was raised and laundered using the laundering system and the virtual currency accounts described in the affidavit.

Included among the assets seized were cryptocurrency addresses valued at approximately $89,900 and three additional accounts containing cryptocurrency...Read more here.