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Khusanov also arranged for money to be deposited into the bank account of a co-conspirator, Akmal Zakirov, before Saidakhmetov’s scheduled departure.
A ISIS member waves the radical group’s flag.
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Saidakhmetov was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in February 2015 while boarding a plane bound for Istanbul, Turkey – a common pitstop for foreign fighters on their way to joining ISIS in Syria.
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Khusanov is the last among his co-conspirators to be convicted. The others have either been sentenced or are awaiting sentencing.
“Money is the oxygen that feeds the flame of any organized terrorist activity,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a statement. “This case makes it clear that whether you are a terrorist bomber, a planner, or simply the facilitator who raises the money to pay for their travel, you will be a target of the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force. They are the most experienced detectives and agents in the country in these cases.”
Also Monday, Thomas Osadzinski, a 22-year-old former Chicago college student, was convicted of attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
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Osadzinski designed a computer code to help ISIS bypass programs designed to block the group’s propaganda, prosecutors said.
