Terror funding: Four B’deshis sent to jail

SINGAPORE : A Singapore court jailed four Bangladeshi men for between two and five years for terrorism financing on Tuesday in a case that has put the city state’s

SINGAPORE : A Singapore court jailed four Bangladeshi men for between two and five years for terrorism financing on Tuesday in a case that has put the city state’s most marginalised migrant-worker community in the spotlight.

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Authorities said the men contributed from S$60($45) to S$1,360 ($1,000) to fund attacks in their homeland in the name of Islamic State in Bangladesh. It was Singapore’s first case of terrorism financing.

“The amounts were significant relative to the salaries of the accused persons,” said the prosecutor, who did not give his name for security reasons.

The sentences would send a “strong message that every and all terrorism financing will be dealt with”, he said. The four were among eight Bangladeshi men detained under the Internal Security Act in April for planning attacks in their home country. The colonial-era law allows suspects to be held for lengthy periods without trial.

The group’s leader, Rahman Mizanur, 31, was jailed for five years.

Two others were jailed for two and a half years and the fourth for two years.