"A Manhattan jury convicted Jacobs of three felony counts of providing support for an act of terrorism, as well as conspiracy, money laundering and criminal possession of a weapon. The NGO Counter Extremism Project lists Victoria Jacobs, aka Bakhrom Talipov, as an "extremist leader," and it says she may have been providing information to terrorists since 2018."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler: "Combating Hamas militarily must not only be a goal. Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler also demands that the sources of income of the terrorist organization, which has an extensive support network, be effectively prevented."

"A panel of public and private sector experts discussed the findings of the 2023 FATF report on Crowdfunding for Terrorist Financing  which highlights the four main ways in which terrorist groups exploit crowdfunding for terrorist financing. The report also looks at challenges faced by those involved in the crowdfunding landscape, including investigative agencies, and best practices and recommendations for countries in developing a deeper risk understanding of this sector and effectively combatting terrorist financing.
Moderator: Tom Bergin – Investigative Journalist at Reuters
Panellists:
1. Matthew Murray - GoFundMe
2. Hans-Jakob Schindler - Counter-Extremism Project (CEP)
3. Svetlana Martynova - United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)
4. Anna Nawrotek – Department of Finance, Canada (and project co-lead)"

"As reported by Fast Company, analysts with the Counter Extremism Project claim that they were used to seeing various radical groups requesting donations in cryptocurrencies."

"Some analysts believe that terrorist financing has flourished because South African authorities have become too comfortable with the absence of any visible Islamic activities in South Africa.

“I don’t think South Africa realized that. It was the Americans who said ‘something wrong is going on in the country’,” Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project working group, told AFP."

"Separately, a recent report from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit NGO that monitors the flow of funds for terrorism and extremism, found that the illegal wildlife trade is experiencing a post-pandemic resurgence." [Translated from Indonesian]

"Months ago, when devastating earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, another major development took place. A number of ISIS fighters were able to bribe their way, using U.S. dollars, out of prisons in the region.
On this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green', Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler says the money they used to escape likely came from a fund, via a refugee camp, left over from the now-defunct ISIS caliphate."

"World Geostrategic Insights interview with Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on how terrorists operate and finance their activities through cryptocurrencies, the extent to which this phenomenon has been spreading in Europe and the United States, and the prospects for imposing robust regulation on the cryptocurrency industry and preventing the misuse of digital currencies for criminal activities, such as money laundering and terrorist financing."