Father and son involved in financing terrorism identified in Bukhara.
The son joined the ranks of the "Secretary of Tawhid and Jihad" in Syria and collected money via the internet and cryptocurrency.
In Bukhara, a family case related to financing international terrorist activities was identified, and urgent investigative measures were carried out by the state security service. The NSC reported this to Zamon.uz.
It was reported that a citizen born in 1999 joined the ranks of the international terrorist organization "Tawhid and Jihad Katibasi" in Syria in 2019 and assisted in improving the organization's financial support by collecting monetary funds from other citizens via the internet and transferring them in the form of cryptocurrency.
From 2021 to 2025, he invited Uzbek citizens to send funds via cryptocurrency, resulting in a large amount of money being collected.
Furthermore, the father, born in 1965, was also involved in his son's activities. The father sent a total of 13,597 USDT to his son through the "BINANCE" crypto exchange from 2022 to 2025.
Previously, he had been sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment in 2019 for distributing materials of religious extremism and fanaticism and was later released on parole.
As a result of the urgent investigative measures conducted by the state security service, the criminal case was closed.
According to the decision of the Bukhara City Court, the father born in 1965 was found guilty of committing crimes specified in part 2, paragraph "a" of Article 155³ and part 2, paragraph "a" of Article 278⁸ of the Criminal Code and was sentenced to 10 years and 2 months of imprisonment.
The son born in 1999 was charged under Articles 244¹, 244², 155², and 155³ of the Criminal Code, and a search was declared for him.
