The leader of JMB was hanged in 2007 for murder. JMB has been announced as an official ISIL branch in Bangladesh, but the government still denies the existence of ISIL within Bangladeshi borders.[1] However, both the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Department of State have identified an "ISIS-Bangladesh" entity, citing the 2015 murder of Tavella Cesare and the JULY 2016 Dhaka attack as evidence for ISIL in Bangladesh.[31][32]