The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has uncovered a scheme in which terrorist financiers exploit women's bank accounts and crowdfunding platforms to move funds. The funds are consolidated into a master account before being split into smaller payments and transferred through international money-transfer operators and remittance applications to a network of money mules in Nigeria. The NFIU's findings highlight the evolving methods used by terrorist financiers to evade detection.
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