Dismantle the cell to collect royalties from communication towers in Mosul
Thursday, 16 January 2014 18: 01
Twilight news revealed an intelligence source in the Iraqi province of Nineveh on Thursday, dismantling the cell of 16 competent to collect royalties from guard towers communications versus non-detonated.
altThe source said in an interview for "Twilight" subject named "security services arrested four people accused of collecting royalties from the owners protection masts North and Northwest of the city of Mosul.
"After an investigation found their cell consisting of 16 elements, and they collect monthly royalty owners protection against Telecom towers non-detonated or abuse."
According to the source, "security forces chased the 12 elements of others, seeking to arrest them."
Often companies erected towers in agricultural land, and that land owners are granted privileges for its protection of those towers.
And the phenomenon of collecting royalties by armed groups linked to Al-Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, to fund its work.
Some sources talk about sums of up to about $ 3 million, with local authorities is that this number is inflated by a lot and talk about a few hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.
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Thursday, 16 January 2014 18: 01
Twilight news revealed an intelligence source in the Iraqi province of Nineveh on Thursday, dismantling the cell of 16 competent to collect royalties from guard towers communications versus non-detonated.
altThe source said in an interview for "Twilight" subject named "security services arrested four people accused of collecting royalties from the owners protection masts North and Northwest of the city of Mosul.
"After an investigation found their cell consisting of 16 elements, and they collect monthly royalty owners protection against Telecom towers non-detonated or abuse."
According to the source, "security forces chased the 12 elements of others, seeking to arrest them."
Often companies erected towers in agricultural land, and that land owners are granted privileges for its protection of those towers.
And the phenomenon of collecting royalties by armed groups linked to Al-Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, to fund its work.
Some sources talk about sums of up to about $ 3 million, with local authorities is that this number is inflated by a lot and talk about a few hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.
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