Philippines arrests Islamic State terror funding 'facilitator'

Source: The Star (Malaysia)

Philippines arrests Islamic State terror funding 'facilitator'

Thursday, 15 Feb 2024
8:07 PM MYT

MANILA: The Philippine government said it arrested a woman on Thursday (Feb 15) tagged by the United States as a facilitator for "terror" who gave money and other aid to the Islamic State group.

Myrna Mabanza was arrested near the town of Indanan in the southern Sulu island group, a stronghold of an IS-linked armed militant group called Abu Sayyaf, according to a statement from Manila's Anti-Terrorism Council.

The US treasury department in 2018 listed Philippines-based Mabanza as a "facilitator for terror", saying she supported the Philippine branch of Isis, an alternate name for IS.

It accused her of "assisting in, sponsoring, or providing financial, material, or technological support for, or financial or other services to or in support of" Isis-Philippines.

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