Officials Participating in Oil Smuggling

Nineva integrity office manager Talin Dawood Daghistani has asked the government to put an end to organised smuggling of Iraqi oil through the Rabeea border point. He said the integrity office has authentic documents proving that some officials are involved in smuggling oil to Syria through Rabeea point (in Nineva province in northwestern Iraq.) He maintained that there are organized gangs in Rabeea point collaborating with former high-ranking Iraqi officials inside Syria to fund the insurgents inside Iraq with the oil smuggling revenue. He said billions of dollars worth of oil has been smuggled in the last two years.