MOSCOW, September 30 (RAPSI) – If convicted terrorist Munir Farooqi loses his appeal, the Greater Manchester Police will apply to seize his family’s home using a remedy provided for in the Terrorism Act 2000, the BBC reported Sunday.
In 2011, Farooqi was found guilty of three counts of soliciting to murder, one of engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism by attempting to recruit others to engage in violence abroad, and one of distributing terrorist publications.
In September 2011, Rose-Marie Franton of the Crown Prosecution Service issued a statement describing the case as follows: “This was a very serious case where these men used their Manchester market stall as a front to lure young men into ostensibly becoming converts to Islam, but with the ultimate aim of recruiting them to attend terrorist training camps and fight overseas.”
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales is set to hand down a judgment at 2pm Monday.
According to the BBC, during trial it was revealed that he had used his Manchester family home to host recruitment sessions. The Terrorism Act 2000 provides for the forfeiture of property under certain circumstances, including when the property “had been used for the purposes of terrorism.”
In related news, the Russian State Duma announced Friday that President Vladimir Putin had submitted a draft law proposing criminal liability for various activities relating to terror camps.
Among other things, the president proposed that the property owned by the relatives of a given terrorist convicted in such crimes should be subjected to verification that it was legally acquired.