Kosovo Charges Iranian with Financing Terror

Kosovan authorities said Monday they had charged an Iranian man with "financing terrorism and money laundering" via an aid group he runs, alleging he received some 900,000 euros ($990,000) in undeclared cash between 2014 and 2015.

Officials did not name the man but local media identified him as Hasan Azari Bejandi, who runs the Qur'an NGO and oversees the activities of four other religious organizations suspected of having links to Tehran.

The groups operations have been suspended as a result of the investigation, authorities said.

Kosovo newspaper Express reported the NGOs had been spreading anti-Western and anti-Semitic sentiment.

Mainly Muslim Kosovo has seen some 300 of its citizens join jihadist organizations in Stria and Iraq since 2014, according to official figures.