Terror charges haves been raised against Mohamed Ameen, who is on the the list of terrorists publicised by America's Department of the Treasuries Office of Foreign Affairs Control (OFAC).
He has been charged with joining a terrorist organization, and plotting a terror attack.
He is accused of spreading extremist ideologies in Maldives on a large scale, in addition to recruiting and directing terrorist fighters abroad. The 35-year-old is also accused of providing financial and technological assistance to foreign terrorist organizations and having close ties with their leaders.
Ameen was arrested on October 24.
Mohamed Ameen is the first Maldivian to be included in the US Department of the Treasury's OFAC terrorist list. Sanctions were imposed on him by the OFAC in August this year. According to the US Department of the Treasury, Ameen “has materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K)”.
As of April 2019, Maldives-based Ameen was actively engaged in leading ISIS recruitment through his close lieutenants. Ameen’s subordinates were holding roughly 10 recruitment sessions per week under the guise of Islamic classes at several Malé, Maldives-based locations, including Ameen’s home. Ameen and his group continued to recruit on behalf of ISIS from various Maldivian criminal gangs. Additionally, Ameen is a recruiter and key leader for ISIS in Syria, Afghanistan, and the Maldives. Ameen used to direct terrorist fighters to Syria, but now sends them to Afghanistan.US Department of the Treasury
