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Thursday 17 Dec 2015 - 12:37 Makkah mean time-6-3-1437
Washington (IINA) – The United States sees no evidence that the Turkish government is purchasing oil from Daesh, a senior Treasury official said on Wednesday, according to Anadolu Agency.
During a press briefing at the White House, Acting Under-Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam Szubin reiterated that the Turkish government was not involved in any oil smuggling with the group."The preponderance of their (Daesh) sales, we believe, are happening at the well head, in a sense; in other words, they are selling to middlemen or black-marketeers, who are then, in turn, providing it to others," Szubin said.
However, he added that Daesh used the majority of its oil to fuel their own efforts and military acts in the territories they rule.
Daesh is thought to earn millions of dollars per month from oil sales which they produce from the fields it controls in Syria and Iraq.
Following the downing of a Russian warplane that violated Turkey’s airspace near the Syrian border on November 24, Russia announced sanctions against Turkey and President Vladimir Putin has alleged Turkish involvement in oil purchases from Daesh. Since then, the U.S. officials from all levels have been denying the claims.
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