Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-15 19:22:35|Editor: xuxin

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MOSCOW, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Internationally wanted Russian citizen Ali Gekhaev suspected of financially supporting the Islamic State (IS) was extradited from Belgium to Russia Friday, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Saturday.

The man, born in 1988, had lived in the territory of the European Union since 2015, where he financially supported IS militants in Syria, the FSB said in a press release.

In May 2017, Gekhaev was detained in Brussels and placed under pre-extradition arrest.

Further search and investigation are underway, said the FSB.</s>MOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. A Russian national accused of financing militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) in Syria has been extradited from Belgium, a source in the Center for Public Relations (CPR) of the Russian Federal Security Service told TASS.

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in association with the Russian General Prosecutor’s Office, the Interpol National Central Bureau (NCB) at the Russian Interior Ministry and the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service have extradited a Russian citizen Ali Abdul-Mutalipovich Gekhayev, born in 1988, who is on the international wanted list, from Belgium. Being a supporter of radical Islam, Gekhayev has lived full-time on the territory of the European Union countries since 2015, from which he provided financial support to the militants of the international terrorist organization ‘Islamic State’ banned in the Russian Federation in Syria," the CPR said.

In May 2017, based on the finding of the Russian side the accused was detained in Brussels and placed under pre-extradition arrest, the Center for Public Relations said. "As a result of coordinated efforts of Russian law enforcement bodies the supplied evidence of criminal activity of the wanted person allowed the Belgian authorities to comply with the extradition request," the CPR added.

On September 14, Gekhayev was extradited to Russia. Further investigative activities and search measures are being carried out.</s>"Russia's Federal Security Service together with the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, the Russian Interior Ministry's National Central Bureaus of Interpol and the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service organized the extradition from Belgium of an internationally wanted Russian citizen Gekhaev Ali Abdul-Mutalipovich, born 1988," the statement said.

According to the statement, Gehaev was a supporter of radical Islam, since 2015 has lived in the territory of the European Union, from where he financed the militants of the Daesh terrorist group in Syria.

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In May 2017, he was detained in Brussels and placed under pre-extradition arrest, the statement said.

Ali Gekhaev was extradited to Russia on September 14.

*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) is a terrorist group banned in Russia</s>Belgian authorities have extradited a 30-year-old Russian citizen at the request of Russia’s law enforcement agencies, the FSB said in a statement on Saturday. The man, identified as Ali Gekhaev, a radical Islamist, is accused of rendering financial support to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). He had lived in the EU since 2015, according to the intelligence service.
The Russian FSB says that Belgium has extradited Ali Gekhaev, a suspect wanted for financing ISIL militants in Syria.