UN chief: allegiance to the IG in different parts of the world swore 34 categories – TASS

United Nations, on 6 February. / TASS /. Thirty-four armed groups in different parts of the world swore allegiance to the international terrorist network “Islamic state” (IG, banned in Russia), and in the coming year, that number will grow.

Such data led the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki moon in the report sent on Friday to the Security Council, the world body.

The administrative head of the UN has warned that the country must prepare for the growth of attacks on the part related to the IG groups from countries such as the Philippines, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Libya and Nigeria. “The recent expansion of the scope of the IG’s influence in West and North Africa, the Middle East, South and South-East Africa demonstrates the speed with which and the scale of spreading the threat over only 18 months,” – says the document from which the exposure leads AP agency.

Ban Ki-moon called the IG “the richest terrorist organization in the world.” According to various sources, over 2015 on the sale of oil and petroleum products it earned from $ 400 million to $ 500 million, despite a ban on such transactions, entered the UN Security Council. At the same time trade in hydrocarbons it is not the only source of group revenue -. Over the last year extremists received considerable profit from “taxes” they impose private entrepreneurs and farmers, as well as the seizure and resale of real estate

The Secretary-General leads UN mission data to assist Iraq (UNAMI), according to which the IG withdrew more than $ 1 billion from banks in the occupied areas of radicals. In addition, another $ 1 billion a year brings a “tax” that pays the owners of lorries traveling through gang-controlled territory, said Ban Ki-moon. He warned that the IG is “unprecedented threat” because it can adapt quickly, including a reduction in revenues and has sufficient influence and authority to bring under its wing groups from various parts of the world.

Organization of IG originated in October 2006 by the merger of 11 radical Sunni groups operating in the territory of Iraq and Syria. According to the US, the number of its militants at the moment is about 25 thousand people.

In addition to the government forces of Iraq and Syria, the armed struggle against the groups are Air Space Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as a coalition of countries led by the United States. In late January, Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin said that since the beginning of military operations in Russia IG Syria first began to lose positions captured.