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| Iraqi agents dismantle multinational ISIS finance ring |
| 2019-02-22 |
| [Rudaw] Iraqi intelligence agents announced Thursday they have dismantled a multinational ISIS funding network ‐ calling it the biggest such bust in Iraq’s history. "The biggest finance group of ISIS in the history of Iraq has been dismantled," the National Intelligence Service said in a statement Thursday, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group (ISIS). Without delving into detail, the statement says the finance network was scattered across several countries with branches across the globe. "This group, in its financing, depended on currency exchange offices and a variety of shops, through a complicated method, to disguise and confuse monitoring the movement of its funds," the service said. No details were given as to how much money the network handled, nor did it mention any arrests. On October 9, 2018, the Kurdistan Region’s counterterrorism forces published footage of its offices raiding an ISIS finance ring. Ten senior ISIS financiers were tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Baghdad and Erbil, according to the US-led coalition. In Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, there are a huge number of small currency exchange shops which are wide open to exploitation by money launderers. On Monday, CNN was told by a US military official that more than a thousand ISIS fighters recently crossed into Iraq from Syria carrying up to $200 million in cash. The jihadists, now territorially defeated, have lost many of their sources of revenue. Its self-reliant sleeper cells must now infiltrate Kurdish and Arab villages around the Qarachugh, Makhoul, and the Hamrin mountains to find food and water. There has also been a rise in kidnappings for ransom money, with fighters often demanding tens of thousands of dollars. |
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