The sale of oil and gas on the black market is the main source of revenue, but there are other forms of financing. The total wealth of the self-styled Islamic State (ISIS) is estimated at 2000 million dollars

It is not a state and is expected to never be. However, it has money to finance its territorial expansion and terrorist acts; and it is not little. Results mainly from the sale of oil and gas on the black market, often at prices well below the ‘tabulated’ world. Ie, it is easy to sell and there are always those who buy.

They proliferate taxes on anything that moves and invent up rates for everything and anything. Kidnappings bring in millions, as well as the sale of antiques and archaeological finds. While there are those who buy the business flourishes. This is guaranteed.

OIL

Most revenue results from the oil business, several sources point to a daily revenue from 1.5000000 to 2,000,000 dollars.

TAXES

According to The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, it is estimated that they are charged $ 8 million a month in taxes and fees on local economic activity.

REDEMPTIONS

Several sources report that in 2014 the ISIS will have received close to $ 20 million in ransom payments for kidnapped people.

ART AND ANTIQUES

ISIS also sells on the black market works of art, antiques and many archaeological exhibits.

COTTON

The sale cotton harvested in the agricultural fields of the Syrian part of the ISIS is also a source of revenue, although worthless calculated.

DONATIONS

Private donations from other terrorist groups in the region, but the ISIS is also sponsored by some neighboring Gulf countries.

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