Iraq intel busts ‘biggest ever’ Daesh financing network

By Ibrahim Saleh</p> <p>BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s intelligence apparatus has dismantled a clandestine group that had helped finance Daesh terrorist operations around the world, according to Iraq’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).</p> <p>In a Thursday statement, the NIS described the group as “the largest Daesh financing operation ever uncovered in Iraq”. </p> <p>“The [financing] network is extremely complex,” it said. “It has branches in countries across the globe.”<br> </p> <p>According to the NIS, the group “uses various offices and corporate fronts to camouflage its activities and the movement of funds” to terrorist elements. <br> </p> <p>The NIS statement did not provide further details.</p> <p>Recent months have seen an uptick in Daesh activity, especially near the Iraq-Syria border, after reports that hundreds of Daesh terrorists had escaped from Syrian prisons and fled into Iraqi territory.