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MANILA (AFP) – The Philippine government said it arrested a woman yesterday tagged by the United States (US) as a facilitator for “terror” who gave money and other aid to the Islamic State (IS) group. Myrna Mabanza was arrested near the town of Indanan in the southern Sulu island group, a stronghold of an IS-linked […]
The US treasury department in 2018 labeled Mabanza as a 'terror facilitator' for supporting the Philippine branch of ISIS
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The funds that were allegedly received and distributed by Myrna Mabanza, a suspected financier of Al-Qaeda and a supporter of the Islamic State, were used in the five-month Marawi siege in 2017, government officials said Friday.
Emmett Manantan of the Anti-Money Laundering Council confirmed that the suspect Myrna Mabanza used money service businesses to transfer funds to members of the Abu Sayyaf Group