US makes largest ever terrorist finance cryptocurrency seizure

Selva Ozelli, Esq., CPA is an international tax attorney and CPA who frequently writes about tax, legal and accounting issues for Tax Notes, Bloomberg BNA, other publications and the OECD.

The US Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security (HSI), and the US Treasury on 13 August [2020] announced [1] the dismantling of three cyber-enabled terrorist financing campaigns, involving the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, al-Qaeda, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).