The Department of Justice has begun the process of denaturing a US citizen for the financing of terrorism

The Justice Department filed a petition to cancel the naturalization of a person from Sudan who entered the United States on an F-1 student visa, obtained the status of legal permanent resident, winning a green card in the lottery, and passed the naturalization process in 2000.

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The reason for the denaturalization request was the violation by the Sudanese of the requirements imposed by America’s sanctions on Iraq, as well as the violation of US tax laws, according to department site.

According to the investigation, Mubarak Ahmed Hamed entered into a conspiracy to violate the sanctions imposed against Iraq. As executive director of the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) non-profit organization, Hamed regularly transferred funds from the IARA account in the USA (which were exempted from taxes as charitable assistance) to an account in Jordan, controlled by Khalid Al-Sudani, which he carried in Iraq, and Hamed was aware of the final destination of the money.

IARA also implemented several projects that were funded by USAID, but there is no specific evidence that this funding was forwarded to Iraq.

In 2004, the organization’s activities came to the attention of the United States Department of Foreign Assets Control, which linked it to the financing of terrorism.

25 June 2010, Hamed pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally transfer over 1 a million dollars to Iraq in violation of federal sanctions and violating US tax laws, as it transferred to Iraq money that was exempt from taxes for charitable purposes. 11 January 2012 Hamed was sentenced to four years and 10 months in federal prison.

16 January 2018, the Department of Justice and National Security released a report highlighting how the US immigration system is being used to undermine US national and public security. The report reported that about 70% of those convicted of international terrorism charges between 11 September 2001 and 31 December 2016 were foreigners.

Therefore, it was decided to apply the process of denaturalization to some of these convicts, and Hamid became one of them.

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