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04:27 pm
Saturday 14 November 2020
Vienna – AA
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehmer confirmed that 20 million euros of Brotherhood funds were confiscated, most of which were assets, and the remainder liquid money, indicating that investigations showed that these funds were used to finance terrorism.
Nehmer said – in statements to him on Saturday – that 100,000 euros were seized as liquid money from one of the members of the group, which is the highest result for an individual, and noted that the investigators confirm that there is a strong link between the owners of these funds and terrorist acts.
Nehmer explained that these elements have been under surveillance and investigation for more than a year, noting that 21,000 hours of monitoring have been carried out on these elements, and more than 1.2 million photographs of meetings and concentrations of suspicious people have been collected, which now need further evaluation and examination.
A few days ago, the Austrian Interior Ministry carried out a raid campaign against 60 Brotherhood homes and shops in 4 Austrian states, and 30 people were arrested. The seized assets were initially estimated at 25 million euros.
It should be noted that the Ministry of the Interior deployed anti-terrorist forces in several camps in the Austrian city in anticipation of further terrorist attacks following the attack in central Vienna, which occurred on November 2, which killed 4 and injured 22 people after a Automatic weapon attack of a Macedonian terrorist, and the police killed him immediately. .
