Show description: Federal prosecutors in Detroit sentenced 26-year-old Jibreel Pratt to nine years in federal prison on November 13, 2025, after Pratt pleaded guilty in July to concealing the financing of terrorism for sending two cryptocurrency transfers he believed would fund ISIS. Pratt began communicating in February 2023 with an individual he believed was aligned with a designated foreign terrorist organization, sent two crypto transfers between March and May 2023 that he characterized as funding travel and operational support, and was arrested in May 2024. Prosecutors introduced communications in which Pratt pledged allegiance and offered operational ideas including concepts involving drones and remote-controlled vehicles, transaction records, and evidence he used a VPN and an encrypted application to hide transaction details and keys to support knowledge and concealment elements of the charges. Investigations combined undercover human sources with on-chain tracing and subpoenas for off-chain metadata to attribute wallets and map flows, and prosecutors pursued charges and sentencing in cases involving digital asset transfers tied to explicit intent or operational messaging. The case prompted recommendations for exchanges, custodial wallets, over-the-counter desks, and high-volume trading services to review and tighten onboarding and ongoing KYC and sanctions screening, elevate terrorism and adverse media checks, implement Travel Rule solutions where applicable, deploy blockchain analytics to detect terror-financing typologies, apply counterparty risk scoring to self-hosted wallet flows, enrich alerts with off-chain context, retain logs, and file timely suspicious activity reports. The case also led to guidance for incident response alignment with law enforcement and for product and security teams to implement more granular transaction monitoring rules, automated enrichment of wallet risk scores with off-chain signals, and controls around VPN and privacy-tool usage when correlated with suspicious activity, while legal and compliance teams document decision points and retention policies to support regulatory reporting and criminal investigations. Source: https://theweb3.news/crypto/detroit-isis-crypto-sentencing/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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