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SINGAPORE \u2013 A man who allegedly transferred money to fund terrorist acts in Gaza was hauled to a district court on July 29.<\/p>\n
Saw Ryan Htoo, 23, was handed two charges of providing money to support terrorist purposes.<\/p>\n
The Myanmar national, who is a Singapore permanent resident, purportedly transferred US$72.28 (S$93), on Aug 9, 2024, to a PayPal account belonging to a person named Bradley Sainsbury for the purpose of facilitating a terrorist act in Gaza City.<\/p>\n
He also allegedly tried to transfer an additional US$1 to another PayPal account owned by Meredith Pollick for the same purpose on Aug 19, 2024.<\/p>\n
He was told that the donations would be used to purchase military equipment<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a statement on July 28 that Saw Ryan Htoo developed a strong hatred towards Muslims\u00a0in 2024,\u00a0after being exposed to Islamophobic content following Hamas\u2019 attacks against Israel on Oct 7, 2023.<\/p>\n By early 2025, he had also developed a strong hatred towards Jews after consuming far-right extremist and anti-Semitic narratives on social media.<\/p>\n He made online posts expressing support for the use of violence against Jews and Muslims, as well as other groups typically targeted by far-right extremists, such as immigrants to Europe and the LGBT community.<\/p>\n During his hearing, the prosecution asked for Saw Ryan Htoo\u2019s bail to be denied, citing he poses a risk to public safety, given the extent of his radicalisation.<\/p>\n When asked by the judge if he had anything to say, Saw Ryan Htoo said he had social anxiety, and he would not be pleading guilty to his charges.<\/p>\n He was not granted bail and was remanded. His case will be heard again on Aug 21.<\/p>\n Those convicted of providing money for terrorist purposes can be fined up to $500,000, jailed for up to 10 years, or both.<\/p>\n MHA said in its statement: \u201cTerrorism and terrorist financing are grave threats to domestic and international security, and global action is required to deprive terrorist groups of funding and materials.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do not condone and will take firm action against individuals using Singapore as a base to conduct or support terrorist activities, whether locally or overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n MHA reminded the public not to remit any money, or provide any services, supplies or any material to a terrorist organisation, for facilitating or carrying out any terrorist act.<\/p>\n Anyone with information on such activities should inform the authorities immediately, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A man who allegedly transferred money to fund terrorist acts in Gaza was hauled to a district court on July 29. Saw Ryan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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