Money services businesses offer money transfers, currency exchange and similar services. Extremist groups may exploit these services to move funds, hide where the money comes from or goes, and avoid financial oversight.
In September 2019, a Kosovan court sentenced Bujar Behrami to 10 years in prison for terrorism related offences carried out between December 2017 and June 2018, during the peak conflict in Syria and Iraq.
Two others received sentences of seven and four years, respectively.12 Prosecutors accused the Behrami group of receiving funds from the Islamic State to pay for weapons and explosives for attacks in Kosovo, France and Belgium.13 According to the indictment, the group received €9 000 in three money transfers from MoneyGram and Western Union in April and May 2018.14
12Lavdim Bajraktari, Supremja i lë në fuqi dënimet ndaj dy të akuzuarve për përgatitje të sulmeve terroriste në diskoteka, kisha dhe
kundër KFOR-it, Betimi për Drejtësi, 14 December 2020, https://betimiperdrejtesi.com/supremja-i-le-ne-fuqi-denimetndaj-dy-te-
akuzuarve-per-pergatitje-te-sulmeve-terroristene-diskoteka-kisha-dhe-kunder-kfor-it.
13Jihadist-related group planned attacks in Kosovo, abroad, N1 Belgrade, 11 October 2018, https://n1info.rs/english/news/a427006-
group-of-kosovo-pople-indicted-for-terrorism-andlinks-to-islamic-state.
14 Blerta Barku, Në rigjykim lirohen katër të akuzuarit për përgatitje të sulmeve terroriste në Kosovë, Betimi për Drejtësi, 17 June 2022,
https://betimiperdrejtesi.com/ne-rigjykim-lirohenkater-te-akuzuarit-per-pergatitje-te-sulmeve-terroriste-nekosove.