BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq has captured the alleged finance chief of Daesh,
Sami Jasim al-Jaburi, who was sought by the United States, Prime Minister
Mustafa Al-Kadhemi announced Monday.
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Jaburi, also the suspected former deputy to the late IS leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, was arrested by intelligence services "outside the
borders" of Iraq, Kadhemi said on Twitter.
He did not specify the location but said Jaburi was captured in a
"complex external operation".
The US had offered a reward of up to $5 million for the capture of Jaburi.
The US Rewards for Justice programme said Jaburi within Daesh had
"reportedly served as the equivalent of ... finance minister, supervising
the group's revenue-generating operations from illicit sales of oil, gas,
antiquities, and minerals".
In September 2015, the US Treasury Department labelled Jaburi as a Specially
Designated Global Terrorist.
Daesh took a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014.
Iraq's government declared victory against the terrorists in late 2017 after
a grinding military campaign backed by a US-led coalition.
Baghdadi was killed in a raid by US Special Forces in northwestern Syria in
October 2019.
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