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Alwaght- Russia says it has proof of vast illegal oil trade by ISIS terrorist group and points to Turkey as the main destination for the smuggled petrol, implicating its leadership in aiding the terrorists.
The Russian Defense Ministry has released evidence which it says unmasks vast illegal oil trade by ISIS Takfiri terrorist group. The oil is delivered to Turkey with more evidence indicating that Turkish leadership is deeply involved in the illicit trade, RT reported.
At a briefing in Moscow, defense ministry officials displayed satellite images which showed columns of tanker trucks loading with oil at installations controlled by ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq, and then crossing the border into neighboring Turkey.
According to Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, Russia is aware of three main oil smuggling routes to Turkey.
“Today, we are presenting only some of the facts that confirm that a whole team of bandits and Turkish elites stealing oil from their neighbors is operating in the region,” Antonov said, adding that this oil “in large quantities” enters the territory of Turkey via “live oil pipelines,” consisting of thousands of oil trucks.
Antonov added that Turkey is the main buyer of smuggled oil coming from Iraq and Syria.
“According to our data, the top political leadership of the country - President Erdogan and his family – is involved in this criminal business.”
However, since the start of Russia’s anti-terrorist operation in Syria on September 30, the income of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants from illegal oil smuggling has been significantly reduced, the ministry said.
“The income of this terrorist organization was about $3 million per day. After two months of Russian airstrikes their income was about $1.5 million a day,” Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy said.
For the past two months, Russia’s airstrikes hit 32 oil complexes, 11 refineries, 23 oil pumping stations, Rudskoy said, adding that the Russian military had also destroyed 1,080 trucks carrying oil products.
“These [airstrikes] helped reduce the trade of the oil illegally extracted on the Syrian territory by almost 50 percent.”
Responding to the Russian allegations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that nobody had a right to “slander” Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from Islamic State.
Iraq will immediately file a protest in the UN Security Council if claims that Turkey is illegally purchasing oil from Islamic State terrorists are confirmed, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said.
"If the Iraqi government receives enough evidence and details, without any hesitation it will file a protest at the UN Security Council and all other relevant international bodies," Naseer Nuri, ministry's spokesman, told Sputnik.
On Saturday Russia said it has information that the son of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is involved in lucrative oil trade crucial in funding the operations of ISIS Takfiri terrorist group in Syria.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there is evidence showing Erdogan’s son has an interest in the oil trade with the terrorists.
Some reports indicate that cheap Syrian oil that ISIS terrorists trafficked to Turkey may be the real reason for the attack on the Russian Su-24 bomber morning, November 24th.
Intelligence sources say the son of Turkish President Bilal Erdogan  is directly linked to ISIS terrorists, and he controls the Syrian oil flows to Turkey.    It is now a widely known fact that Turkish authorities became infuriated after Russian warplanes carried out massive strikes on ISIS oil tankers and facilities.