Mogadishu, (SONNA)-The Somali Government has on Saturday announced that it closed 250 bank accounts and 70 mobile money accounts belonging to the terrorist militant group of Al-Shabaab.
Minister of Finance, Dr. Elmi Mohamud Nur, Deputy Minister of Information, Abdirahman Yusuf Adala, and the State Minister of Internal Security, Mohamed Ali Haga joinlty held press conference in Mogadishu that the Government successfully blocked the finnancial flow and money laundering channels used by terrorists.
” We have closed 250 bank accounts and 70 mobile money accounts belonging to the terrorist militant group of Al-Shabaab, we are still conducting more investigations agaisnt accounts both banks and mobile accounts of the terrorists”, Deputy Information Minister, Abdirahman Adala told SONNA
The officials said that more than 3000 Somali citizens shared informations with the government authorities, saying that the terrorists extort the people by force, and the information helped on the closure of the accounts and numbers.
The Ministers urged the Somali people to coloborate with the security agencies and inform on any milicious they encounter so that the terrorists be put to justice.
