The United States government has turned its guns towards a Kenyan accused of funding ISIS activities as it ravages the war-torn areas.
The country's Treasury Department revealed that Halima Adan Ali, who is based in Kenya, is part of a network of criminals who wired more than Ksh15 million towards the militia group allied to Al Shabaab.
As a result, the US government intends to seize all her assets as well as bar any American citizen from carrying out any financial transactions or dealings with her.
“Treasury is dedicated to ensuring the enduring defeat of ISIS by cutting off all remaining sources of their terror funding around the globe," Business Daily quoted Sigal Mandelker, who is the undersecretary for terrorism and intelligence in the department.
It has also been reported that Ali is suspected to have served as a recruiter for Al Shabaab and has as a result been arrested twice by Kenyan authorities.
This was, however, not the first time the US was forced to go after a Kenyan linked to a terror group network.
In September 2018, the same department issued sanctions against Waleed Ahmed Zein who was also suspected of running a network that was in support of ISIS.
According to the department, Zein was “a dangerous terrorist who established an intricate global network of financial facilitators for ISIS, using intermediaries to evade police and fund their deadly ambitions.”
Ali and Zein were arrested and charged with 10 counts of facilitating terrorist activities.
ISIS is considered a terror group with operations in Libya, Syria, Iraq as well as Central Africa.
