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Shahidul Gaffar Babu (40) and Nabila Khan (35) have been living in Upper Derby, Pennsylvania for the past few years.
They pleaded guilty before Judge Joshua de Ulson when they appeared in federal court in Philadelphia on Wednesday on charges of complicity and complicity with international terrorism.
A statement from the United States Attorney General’s Office said the offender could face up to five years in prison and a fine of 2.5 million. They will have to spend three more years under special surveillance after being released from prison.
The accusations against the couple are that Nabila’s two brothers, JK and IK, who joined the Islamic State in Syria, have sent “huge amounts” of money in recent years.
Among them was Ike, who was killed in a shootout with government forces in Syria last year.
Representatives from the local Bangladeshi community said Babu and Nabila moved to Philadelphia a few years ago from Baltimore, Maryland.
There are two restaurants called ‘Desi Village’ and ‘New Desi Village’. They also used to do catering work on different occasions.
Upper Derby City councilor Sheikh Siddique said that Babu, Bogra’s son, had obtained US citizenship, but that his wife, Nabila, still had a green card. They are known in the community as restaurant merchants.
However, due to their radical behavior, there were already suspicions among Bangladeshi expatriates about them.
According to the case file, Nabila’s older brother, JK, left Bangladesh for Syria in 2015. Nabila asked her sister, who lives in Bangladesh, to sell some of her gold jewelry to pay for her trip to Syria.
Nabila also went to Bangladesh in February of that year to say goodbye to her brother. And Babu wrote to his mother-in-law from Philadelphia that her son was going to Syria to fulfill his ‘great responsibility’, for which he should be ‘proud’.
Nabila’s other brother, IK, came to the United States from Bangladesh in 2013 on a student visa. After being admitted to the university, he was with his sister-in-law from June 2014 to February 2015.
Then when IK returned to Bangladesh, Nabila was still in the country. Babu sent some money to the country at the time, which was spent on Ike’s trip to Syria.
“The couple encouraged Nabila Khan’s two brothers to go to Syria and join ISIS in the war against the United States,” said US Attorney William M. Maxwine.
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