POLICE operatives arrested on Thursday an international finance officer of the terrorist group Islamic State in Mindanao.Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief MGen. Romeo Caramat Jr. said Myrna Mabanza, 33, of Indanan, Sulu, was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest for violation of the 'Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012' (RA 10168) and the 'Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.'He said Mabanza was among the high-profile global terrorists in the league of ISIS chieftain Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and ISIS-Philippines Emir Isnilon Hapilon.'Based on the publication of the UN Security Council, Mabanza was listed as associated with ISIS in Iraq, participating in the financing, planning and preparing and perpetrating acts,' Caramat said.He said Mabanza supplied and transferred firearms to ISIS in Iraq and in Southern Mindanao.
