The monitoring team of the UN overseeing the compliance with the security Council's sanctions imposed on the insurgent Taliban movement said in its report that the international community is not able to control illegal business activities and investments of the Taliban. At the same time, so he asked UN member states to provide all relevant information about the bank accounts of the Taliban, sponsoring organizations and other financial intermediaries, the Taliban. According to the report of the monitoring team, in addition the income of the Taliban from extortion with the influx of investment into Afghanistan in the next year still will rise. In the last year, while the Taliban received only from drug trafficking 155 million dollars.
According to World bank estimates 99 per cent of all gemstones mined in Afghanistan are illegally exported from the country. The proceeds from the smuggling then go to the accounts of also the Taliban, which is on operations with precious stones specially focused.
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According to World bank estimates 99 per cent of all gemstones mined in Afghanistan are illegally exported from the country. The proceeds from the smuggling then go to the accounts of also the Taliban, which is on operations with precious stones specially focused.
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