ISIL recruiter sentenced in Tajikistan to 17 years in jail
DUSHANBE. Dec 5 (Interfax) - A resident of Tajikistan has been sentenced to 17 years in a maximum-security penitentiary for recruiting fighters and funding the ISIL terrorist group (banned in Russia).
A court found the resident of the Jangalobov suburb of the town of Vahdat guilty of 'forming or participating in a criminal ring', 'financing terrorist crimes', 'engaging a minor in a crime', 'plotting a crime or an attempted crime' and 'illegally acquiring, transferring, selling, possessing, transporting or carrying a weapon', the Tajik Prosecutor General's Office said.
The court proved that the defendant was recruiting Tajik citizens to join ISIL as fighters in Syria and was financing their transportation to that country, it said.
The defendant recruited fighters and supplied them with plane tickets to Turkey. He financed transportation to Syria of three residents of the Hojigatagan suburb of Vahdat - a father and his underage son and daughter, the Prosecutor General's Office said.