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Tue, 18 Nov, 2014 12:03:31 AM FTimes - STT Report, Nov. 18  Trial of four suspected of funding the Al-shabaab terrorist group East Africa began on Monday at the Helsinki District Court. Photo – Lehtikuva. The main trial of four men suspected of funding the Al-Shabaab terrorist group in East Africa began on Monday at the Helsinki District Court.
The prosecution sought two years conditional imprisonment of the suspects who had allegedly sent money to the terrorist outfit to aid their activities. All the four suspects denied the charges.
During an earlier hearing, the prosecutor had said that the four suspects had been involved in sending either their own money or money collected from other sources to Kenya and Somalia in aid of the operations of Al-Shabaab.
According to the document instituting the proceedings, the funding was collected mainly in small amounts and sent through informal money remittance services popularly known as Hawala. The money remitted is estimated to be several thousands of euros.
One of the suspects is accused of recruiting a relative who had been freed from a jail in Africa to join the terrorist group. The same person is suspected to have planned to abduct two teenage relatives from Finland and send them to a terrorism camp against their will.
According to the prosecution, the plan was to tempt the children and their mother to go to Kenya for a holiday. Afterwards, the children would be transported near Kenya’s border with Somalia, drugged and finally taken to the other side of the border.
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