A resident of New York was accused of financing bitcoin terrorists

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In New York, a woman has been charged with laundering bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies and sending the money to help the Islamic State extremist group, writes Air force.

27-year-old Zubia Shakhnaz is also accused of banking fraud and money laundering. She remains in custody, she is denied release on bail.

Zubiya Shahnaz was born in Pakistan. In the US, she worked as a lab assistant.

According to the prosecution, she fraudulently received loans from a bank in the amount of 85 thousand dollars to buy bitcoins on the Internet.

Bitcoin is a virtual currency. Although it is not a legal means of payment (for example, bitcoins cannot be used to pay in any store like regular money), the value of this currency has risen sharply this year.

Criminal groups resort to bitcoins in order to launder money.

The prosecution claims that in July, Zubia Shahnaz received a Pakistani passport and bought herself a ticket from New York to Pakistan with a stop in Istanbul. The prosecutor's office says that in fact she wanted to get to Syria.

She was detained at John F. Kennedy Airport. When she was 9500 dollars in cash. Cash in more than 10 thousand dollars must be declared at the border crossing.

A review of her electronic devices revealed that she often searched for information about the Islamic State.

Under each article, the money laundering charges face up to 20 years in prison, and 30 years for bank fraud.

Her lawyer, Steve Zyssu, says she only sent money abroad to help Syrian refugees.

Earlier it was reported that the twin brothers Winklevoss, who at one time sued Zuckerberg for stealing ideas Facebook, steel the world's first bitcoin billionaires. They own 1% of this cryptocurrency.

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