(ANSAMed) - BEIRUT, NOVEMBER 23 - Syrian members of ISIS, prisoners along with about 10 thousand other detainees in prisons in north-eastern Syria run by the local wing of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), have returned free after paying tens of thousands dollars in the form of taxes and bribes from the Kurdish authorities themselves. This was discovered by an investigation conducted by the British Guardian newspaper and published in the last few hours.
The leaders of the Kurdish forces in Syria have forcefully denied the reconstruction of the newspaper, which publishes testimonies of two former Syrian members of the self-styled Islamic State and copies of documents attesting to the payments of 8 billion US dollars to the Kurdish-Syrian authorities.
These control, with the support of the US military forces and with the agreement of the Russian military forces, large portions of north-eastern Syria in the north and north-east, rich in oil and water resources.
ISIS prisoners in Kurdish prisons in North-Eastern Syria were arrested during the military-safe campaigns against jihadists between 2017 and 2019.
Their family members are locked up in prison camps in the same territories while they have been waiting for years, without trial, to know their fate.
The two witnesses cited by the Guardian are former prisoners in northeastern Syrian prisoners.
And they claim that in addition to having paid 8,000 dollars to the financial department of the PKK in Syria, they have paid respectively 22,000 and 14,000 dollars, collected through collections from family members and acquaintances, to Kurdish officials as bribes to facilitate their liberation.
The Kurdish authorities strongly deny that the liberated prisoners paid money in the framework of the "reconciliation" work with the former Syrian members of the 'Islamic state' promoted last year by the PKK in Syria to reduce the phenomenon of overcrowding in ISIS prisons. area.
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