The co-founder of the U.S. branch of a Muslim charity the American government has branded a terrorist organization will go on trial in federal court Monday on conspiracy and tax-fraud charges, writes the Associated Press.

Federal investigators were unable to bring terrorism charges against Pete Seda, also known as Pirouz Sedaghaty, an Iranian-born naturalized American citizen who helped found an office of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation in Oregon.

Prosecutors contend that Mr. Seda, the target of a six-year federal probe, filed false tax documents and took other actions to hide efforts by Al-Haramain to channel money to Islamic separatists in the Russian republic of Chechnya.

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