POLICE reported on Thursday that a woman who was an alleged financier Al-Qaeda and supporter of Islamic State (ISIS) in Indanan, Sulu was arrested.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) said Myrna Mabanza was captured pursuant to a warrant of arrest.
Mabanza is facing cases for violating the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012 and the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.
Police said Mabanza was supposedly involved in the transfer of $107,000 to the then ISIS-Philippines leader Isnilon Hapilon in 2016.
Law enforcement officals said she also delivered money to some ISIS members.
The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has tagged Mabanza as a facilitator who supports Al-Qaeda and ISIS-Philippines.
According to United National Security Council, Mabanza was listed on June 18, 2018 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 4 of resolution 2368 (2017) as being associated with ISIL or Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of” and “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related material to” Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115).
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