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Iran nabs group involved in funding, equipping MKO terrorists

Tehran, IRNA – Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran has announced that the largest network of funding and equipping operational teams of the terrorist group of MKO were arrested.

The Iranian intelligence ministry issued a statement on Monday, declaring that the biggest network active in funding and equipping operational teams of the MKO were identified and six main elements were arrested in different provinces of Iran, while 10 others were summoned and some others are on the run from the intelligence forces.

The broadened network was tasked to transfer money from abroad into Iran by the use of sophisticated methods of money-laundering as well as procuring different equipment for operatives inside the country.

The ringleader of the network, who is a member of the MKO, possesses offices and institutes in the United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands. Ali-Mohammad Dolati also created a tripartite network among Albania, the UAE and the Netherlands in order to fund and procure logistics for terrorists.

The network also set up offices and institutes in Iran and utilized multilayer processes to provide terrorist teams with money, weapons, ammunition and technical telecommunication tools. They also applied thugs to trigger riots in the Islamic country.

Dolati was behind bar due to old ties with the terrorist group.

The investigations on the network and their affiliated elements will continue and their culprits will be prosecuted in other countries on charges such as money-laundering and funding terrorism.

The three mentioned states are being reminded that the presence of the terrorist groups in these countries will bear no fruit for them.

 

Source: Islamic Republic News Agency – IRNA