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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