AKIPRESS.COM - A Kazakhstani worker in South Korea has been arrested for financing a terrorist group in Central Asia, the Arab News reported with reference to the Korean National Police.

The suspect, in his 20s, entered the country three years ago and has been staying illegally without a visa, the police said.

While working at a factory in a southern rural area, the man was suspected of having transferred money worth about $1,000 to a terrorist group, a police spokesman said without elaborating the identity of the group. The suspect is known to have collected money from three other foreign workers, who are still at large.

“The suspect was arrested for violating the act on prohibition against the financing of terrorism as of Oct. 19,” the police said in a press release. “We’re still investigating if he had another accomplice.”

It is the first time that a person in South Korea has been arrested for breaching the act for countering the financing of terrorism since it was enforced in 2017.