Aussie accountant admits al Qaeda support



AN Australian accountant has entered a guilty plea in a New York court to providing material support to al Qaeda.


US prosecutors accused Sabirhan Hasanoff, 35, who lived in Brooklyn with his wife and two children, of accepting $US50,000 from an unidentified co-conspirator in 2007.

The providing material support to al Qaeda charge carries a maximum 15-year jail sentence.

“I agreed with other persons to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organisation,” Hasanoff said during the June 4 hearing in the US District Court in Manhattan, The New York Times reported.

“The organisation was al Qaeda.”

Hasanoff, who once worked for accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, is a dual citizen of Australia and the US.

He was indicted in 2010.

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