Former Al-Shabaab and ISIS operative have been sentenced to fifteen years in jail after he was convicted of being in charge in finance for ISIS group in Somalia.
According to the court statement, Abdirisaq Mohamed Abdi was proved to have been a member of Al-Shabaab and ISIS since 2008.
In March this year, the security forces nabbed Abdi carrying 19,000 USD in Mogadishu. The court found the two militants guilty of terrorist financing.
Hearing has been running at the military since late June this year. The convict has a month to appeal against the sentence.
The military court often carries out sentences and executions to Al-Shabaab militants and government soldiers who commit crimes despite condemnation from human rights groups including the EU.
Somali forces backed by troops of African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) has been fighting against al-Shabaab fighters for more than a decade. During the operations by the government forces, al-Shabaab lost major town including Mogadishu.
The forces also fight against pro-Islamic State faction in northeastern Somalia
ISIS was formed in 2015 by former fighters of al-Shabaab, who deserted the group following disagreement with the top leaders of Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate group, which mainly operates in south and central Somalia.
The group leader and founder Abdulkadir Mumin, also a former Al-Shabaab cleric pledged his allegiance to the then IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2015.
In 2016, the U.S. State Department designated Mumin, a former preacher based in the UK as a global terrorist.
The group has its headquarters in Galgala mountains in Bari region but has made headways into southern Somalia.
