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    A Virginia-based man named Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa has been accused of donating $185,000 to ISIS in the form of cryptocurrency between 2019 and 2022. Chhipa primarily gave the funds to female members of the terror group and achieved the contributions through social media, digital bank transfers, and direct cash collections. He’s been convicted on five counts related to providing support to a terror group, potentially facing up to 100 years in jail. His sentencing will occur on May 5, 2025. In a separate case, Maximiliano Pilipis, owner of AurumXchange, is under fire for alleged money laundering related to the Silk Road darknet marketplace.

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    Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa from Springfield, Virginia got on the wrong side of the law for donating cryptocurrency to notorious terror group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The US Department of Justice reveals that Chhipa shipped out about $185,000 in cryptocurrency to ISIS members in Syria from 2019 to 2022.

    The court’s findings confirm Chhipa specifically sent crypto to lady terror group members aiming to help ISIS in different ways. This includes funding jail-breaks for female terrorists and aiding ISIS combatants. He got the money through social media accounts, digital bank transfers and direct cash collections. He then turned this money into cryptocurrency, delivered it to Turkey first, and then snuck it to ISIS members in Syria.

    Joining hands with Chhipa in this was a British-born ISIS member living in Syria, raising funds for the same causes. The offenses racked up to more than $185,000 in cryptocurrency.

    The law didn’t go easy on Chhipa, convicting him on five different counts. These were one count of scheming to provide material support to a foreign terror group, and four counts of providing and trying to deliver material support to a terror organization.

    The harshest consequence for Chhipa could be 100 years behind bars if penalized to the max for all the counts. But, we’ll have to wait until the hearing on May 5, 2025, to know the actual sentence as it will be set considering the US Sentencing Guidelines and other legal factors.

    In related news, the Department of Justice just recently filed charges against Maximiliano Pilipis, owner of crypto exchange AurumXchange, accusing him of money laundering funds tied to shady darknet marketplace, Silk Road. The claims are that Pilipis’s exchange handled tons of funds transactions from accounts on the Silk Road. They even accused AurumXchange of running without a legal license from 2009 till 2013 and going against Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering, and Counter-Terrorist Financing rules.

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