Woman Arrested in Derbyshire for helping to fund terrorist offences released on Bail

Officers from the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command have arrested a woman on suspicion of terrorist funding offences. Detectives from the National Terrorism Financial Investigation Unit within the Counter Terrorism Command attended an address in Derbyshire yesterday, 21 August, where at approximately 5.50am they arrested a 35-year-old woman on suspicion of being concerned in an arrangement to fund terrorism, contrary to section 17 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Officers also carried out a search at the address. The woman was detained under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and taken to a police station in London. She was subsequently bailed to return to a London police station on a date in mid-September. Enquiries continue.

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