Analyst: oil supply IG on the black market remain significant
Extremist organization "Islamic state" (IG) continues to deliver significant volumes produced in Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic oil on the black market, despite the reduction of illegal mining after air strikes by international coalition on a range of oil infrastructure, captured by the rebels, said on the first day of the weekend in an interview Last news analyst Theodore Karasik (Theodore Karasik).
"Oil, although its exports are extremely decreased due to air strikes inflicted (aircraft international coalition against IG - ed) on certain fields, finds the track on black markets, despite falling prices," said Dubai-based political analyst Karasik.
According to the expert, if in the past year stated that " the income of the IG from illegal extraction and sale of oil ranging from one to three million dollars a day, but now the story is about the sum of one million dollars per month, which was a significant sum for a terrorist group ".
before the conversation Last news Karasik said that IG through Turkish intermediaries sends oil to the black markets in Eastern Europe, and among them to the Ukraine.
"Days" ( "Islamic state" - ed) from the very beginning of Oil exports from the occupied their deposits through brokers and intermediaries in North Cyprus (the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus as amended). Further, this Oil on tankers or trucks through the border gets in Turkey ", - explained the expert, noting that this information is taken from open sources, but data about the serious investigation of this problem as long as extremely little.
According to the expert, " rumored to be Authorized in many European countries involved in the transactions on the black market, however, it is unknown whether they were aware of the actual origin of this oil, this Oil was sold not only in the European Union, but also in Israel, and the Syrian government and the Kurds.
Resolution adopted by the UN security Council unanimously condemns " any participation in the direct or indirect trade, for example, oil and oil products, as well as block and oil installations and related material means with IGIL and other organizations linked to al-Qaeda. The perpetrators threatened punishment of the UN security Council, as stated in the decision, such participation has the ability to be qualified as support for militants and police an enabling offenders to the sanctions list.
Wide expansion of the IG, seized a large area of Iraq and Syria, was one of the main issues in the world of 2014. The group, numbering, according to the CIA, about 30 thousand terrorists, proclaimed in the occupied territories of the Caliphate and seeks to continue to expand their purchases.
A unified front against IG no: in coalition with groups oppose the current military part of Syria and Iraq, and the Iraqi and Syrian Kurds. In the end, fighting a few thousand civilians lost their lives, hundreds of thousands became refugees and several thousand are hostages of the IG.
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