Extortion and corruption An investigation reveals the release of ISIS members from PKK/YPG prisons for money

A French press investigation revealed that the terrorist "PKK/YPG" organization in Syria is releasing ISIS terrorists in exchange for sums of money to be a source of funding for the organization's activities and to collect wealth for its leaders, at the expense of the security of the region and the world.

In exchange for $8,000, a dangerous terrorist element from ISIS can leave the prisons under the control of the terrorist organization "YPG/PKK" in northern Syria. This is what was revealed by a press investigation by the French website Mediapart, following the leads of a scandal in which the terrorist released the terrorist in return for a financial royalty.

The investigation stems from the story of "Abu Ayoub", a Syrian member of the terrorist "ISIS" who fought with the organization to the end, before he was arrested by the "YPG/PKK" organization in 2019. After only two and a half years of imprisonment, he was released, to talk about a network Extortion run by "YPG/PKK" elements trading in world security.

Money for freedom

For his release, Abu Ayyub paid $8,000 to lead the "YPG/PKK" terrorist organization, in addition to another $12,000 as bribes and commissions for figures from the same organization. In a scandal that reveals not only the complicity of the two terrorist organizations with each other, but also their enrichment from each other.

Abu Ayyub is not the only one who was released from the prisons of northern Syria in this way, but he has changed dozens of terrorist elements who were liberated in the same way, according to a law that the YPG/PKK hid from the world, allowing him to free ISIS detainees in return for a ransom.

Abu Ayoub told Mediapart, "I learned about the law from some prisoners who were later freed in this way. They taught us on a daily basis how their file was submitted and how they got approval for it." At that moment the speaker decided to contact his brother in order to work on his release in the same way.

8 months later, Abu Ayyub was outside Hasaka prison, where he spent two and a half years. He told the French website: "The jailer entered the cell and called my name to accompany him. He told me that it was related to transferring me to another prison, and I understood later that he wanted to hide the fact that he had left the prison from them." The jailer led Abu Ayyub to the office of the prison director, where he found his brother waiting for him, then they paid the money and left.

While the number of ISIS terrorist elements held in YPG/PKK prisons is more than 10,000, which means that they can earn more than $2.2 billion in ransoms in exchange for their release. But the enrichment of the terrorists of the organization does not stop there, but they continue to blackmail the families of detainees who are looking for their children.

Blackmail and collusion with terrorism

Somaya, a Syrian woman, whose son joined the ranks of ISIS, and since the fall of the terrorist organization has disappeared, so the mother embarks on an arduous search for the fate of her son. “It cost me at first to pay 900 dollars to people to confirm that my son was in one of the (YPG/PKK) detention centers,” Somaya told Mediapart, after which she had to pay $200 to one of the warders for a few minutes of collecting the mother and her son over the phone.

Somaya adds, "Many people have taken advantage of my weakness, and many have enriched my need to meet my son and know his fate! But I still keep their numbers and will reveal them to the press as soon as my son comes out." While the amount of royalties requested by YPG/PKK members varies according to the nationality of the detainee, it may reach $30,000 for an 8-second video clip, as was the case for the father of a Saudi detainee.

On the part of the international coalition forces supporting the YPG/PKK elements, the prisons are out of their control, and they are completely managed by the terrorist organization, which has turned them into centers of extortion through which it enriches itself at the expense of the families of detainees, and colludes with terrorism by liberating its dangerous elements responsible for several crimes against civilians.