An Uzbek citizen, Azizjon Rakhmatov, has become the sixth individual to be charged for participating in a New York-based conspiracy to provide support to the Daesh militant group, Reuters reports.
He was charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to Daesh and conspiring to use a firearm. He will face up to 50 years in jail if found guilty.
The investigation began when Abdurasul Juraboev, an Uzbek national living in Brooklyn, came to law enforcement's attention after making a post on an Uzbek-language website that supported Daesh. The probe revealed that Juraboev and a Kazakh national living in New York planned to travel to Turkey and then to Syria to join Daesh, prosecutors said.
