NYC illegal immigrant who Posed With AK-47s Busted for Supporting ISIS — after ex-wife rats him out for ‘sham marriage’ to Stripper
A machine gun fanatic living in the country illegally was charged Wednesday with supporting ISIS — after his ex-wife ratted him out for getting a “sham” green-card marriage to a Bronx stripper, The Post has learned.
Mansuri Manuchekhri, a Tajikstan-born truck driver living in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, funneled $70,000 to “ISIS-affiliated individuals” between December 2021 and April 2023 — believing that the money was going to the families of slain ISIS fighters, the feds charged.
He also allegedly boasted to his terror-sympathizer buddies overseas about his firearms prowess.
Brooklyn resident Mansuri Manuchekhri was arrested for supporting ISIS.
“Thank God, I am ready, brother,” Manuchekhri, 34, texted a Turkish contact alongside a 17-second video of him firing an assault rifle at a target at a New Jersey shooting range, according to a federal complaint.
“I go for training at least once or twice a week,” he boasted to the same man alongside a similar video, court papers allege.
The alleged terror sympathizer entered the country from Tajikistan in June 2016 on a non-immigrant tourist visa and remained in the country after it expired that December, authorities said.
He then married a Bronx stripper in a “sham marriage” in March 2017, yet his efforts to obtain legal status in the country failed because he failed to provide supporting documents, according to the complaint.
In a twist, Manuchekhri’s ex-wife snitched on him, calling the New York State Terror Tip Hotline and telling authorities he was likely to “commit acts of violence” and about the green-card marriage, according to law enforcement sources.
Text messages between Manuchekhri and the stripper make clear their entanglement had nothing to do with love.
“Not to sound like an ******* but I’m not signing the papers until I get 2000 out front,” the woman, who was not identified, texted him after he asked her to sign divorce papers in 2021 — as part of a separate failed scheme to gain permanent US residency, court papers say.
After Manuchekhri replied “I don’t have that kind of money,” the stripper responded, “I’ll give you time to save it up…but I’m not signing the papers till I get that,” the papers say.
But the dancer soured on Manuchekhri after he stiffed her on the $200-per-month fee he’d promised her, court papers allege.
“Since you’ve been completely ignoring me IM NOT FILING FOR NO DIVORCE your just gonna be stuck since you want to keep playing me like i’m stupid!!! Changing my number don’t look for me!!!!” she texted him, according to the complaint.
A photo of Syrian money sent to Manuchekhri by a contact in Turkey.
A photo of a woman and girl in burqas sent to Manuchekhri.
Mansuri Manuchekhri, a Tajikstan-born truck driver living in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, funneled $70,000 to “ISIS-affiliated individuals” between December 2021 and April 2023.
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