The United states has taken drastic action against dangerous Kenyan Islamic State (ISIS) leader Waleed Ahmed Zein arrested in July.
US department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the property belonging to him.
All properties and interests in properties of Zein that are in America or in possession or control of U.S persons have been blocked by OFAC.
“Zein is a dangerous terrorist who has established an intricate network of financial facilitators for ISIS using hawalas and intermediaries to fund their deadly ambitions.
“This administrations is committed to targeting ISIS facilitators and their underground network wherever they operate,” stated Sigal Mandekler, Treasury Under Secretary for terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Zein was arrested alongside Halima Adan Ali in Nairobi for financially funding ISIS network spanning across Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Eastern Africa.
Police investigations pointed to the possibility that he, in the period between early 2017 and June 2018, had transacted over Ksh 15million through a Kenyan bank.
To disguise his activities Zein worked as a long-distance truck driver which enabled him to visit a number of countries in East Africa.
He is also claimed to have ventured into tuk-tuk business in Mombasa, which he used to recruit members for the group.
Additionally, security agencies noted that Halima is an extremist recruiter and facilitator renowned as the main coordinator of the new recruits.
