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According to information from WELT AM SONNTAG, the federal government's immediate corona aid has also been given to Islamist extremists.
"In individual cases there is a suspicion of direct terrorist financing," said Berlin's law enforcement authorities to this newspaper.
State security and the public prosecutor's office are currently conducting more than a hundred investigations in the capital against around 60 individuals, mosque associations and associations belonging to the Islamist spectrum.
The authorities are checking whether and to what extent Corona emergency aid has been collected without a claim.
The investigators speak of a "gang-like approach".
In at least three cases there are indications that Corona aid was used to finance terrorism in war zones in the Middle East.
In addition, members of the Salafist and anti-Semitic association Jama'atu, which was recently banned by the Berlin Senate, and Ahmad Armih, who is known as a hate preacher, have received corona aid.
Here too there is suspicion of subsidy fraud.
The assassin from the Berlin Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz, Anis Amri, frequented Jama'atu.
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In total, the total damage in all the prosecuted cases is around one million euros.
250,000 euros have already been seized in the course of searches.
The State Criminal Police Office (LKA) had searched several mosques, offices of mosque associations and private apartments in Berlin with a large number of investigators.
Subsidy fraud can be punished with a prison sentence of up to five years, in serious cases up to ten years.
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