Somali military court sentences member of the Da’eesh to 15 years in prison

The Somali Armed Forces Court, this morning sentenced Abdirizak Mohamed Abdi Jimale, to 15 years in prison for being a member of terrorist group ISIS.

According to the court, the man was a money transfer agent for the organization, where he spent more than $ 400,000 on a company called Heeryo trading Enterprise between 2019-2020.

The court said some of the money went to Ugandan and Ethiopian nationals in South Africa.

The suspect was arrested by somali intelligence group, NISA in March of this year,with $ 19,000 in cash.

Before joining ISIS in 2016, the court said he had been a member of al-Shabaab since 2008, and was wounded in the fighting between Alshabab and the transitional government of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.