UZBEK NATIONAL EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES TO FACE CHARGES FOR PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT TO FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:

Davud Ansariy, a citizen of Uzbekistan and naturalized citizen of the United States, also known as "Kozimjon Gafurov" and "Kozim," will be arraigned in federal court inBrooklyn thisafternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lara K. Eshkenazi on an indictment charging him with one count of conspiring and one count of provision of material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and Al-Nusrah Front (ANF), both foreign terrorist organizations at the time of the charged conduct. Ansariy was extradited to the Eastern District of New York from Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 23, wherehe was arrested in August 2026.

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