Counter-terrorism police to charge Queensland man on proceeds of crime
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Version 0 of 1. A Queensland man whose home was raided by counter-terrorism police is facing proceeds of crime charges. The 32-year-old was arrested at his home at Kingston, south of Brisbane, on Thursday morning. Australian federal police (AFP) said the arrest was part of an ongoing operation jointly conducted with local police. “It will be alleged ... the man was reckless to the fact that there was a risk he was dealing with money that would have become a central part of a criminal activity, namely funding people to travel overseas to fight,” the AFP said in a statement. The arrest comes one week after about 800 AFP, NSW and Queensland police raided homes across Sydney and Brisbane in the country’s largest anti-terrorism operation. There were no arrests in Brisbane. But just over a week earlier, on 10 September, two Queensland men were arrested after a raid at an Islamic bookshop. They included Omar Succarieh, 31, who was denied bail in the supreme court in Brisbane last week. Succarieh has been charged with funding the Syrian extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra. The second man, Agim Kruezi, 21, was accused of preparing for incursions into Syria. The 32-year-old arrested on Thursday was due to appear in Brisbane magistrates court later in the day. |