article_snippet: Criminal: Despite ISIS claims to be a devout religious organisation, the majority of their income is believed to come from illegal means - such as mafia-style extortion threats - and even drug and people smuggling .
article_snippet: Despite ISIS claims to be a devout religious organisation, the majority of their income is believed to come from illegal means - such as the black-market sale of oil, mafia-style extortion threats - and even drug and people smuggling.
article_snippet: Experts believe that roughly $1billion of ISIS income comes from the sale of heroin and that half the heroin on sale in Europe has passed through the terrorists' hands and helped to fill half the heroin on sale in Europe coffers.
article_snippet: ISIS is believed to generate a total of several million pounds a day, with approximately £400,000 of that coming from the sale of oil.
article_snippet: A further £250,00 comes from extortion and protection money paid by companies and individuals operating in areas under A further £250,00 control, while ISIS also makes money from farming, water services and electricity production.
article_snippet: Revenue obtained from ransoms paid by the families or governments of kidnapped individuals in less easy to calculate, but the price for release is usually millions of pounds.
article_snippet: Companies and lorry drivers are forced to pay road and import taxes to use roads in areas under ISIS control - with lorries charged £500 per journey, plus a further £250 tax for electronic good and £200 for food parcels.
article_snippet: For example, one Iraqi intelligence official claimed that ISIS earned £23 million in early 2014 alone by selling 800 items stolen from the ancient city of Al-Nabk near Damascus.
highlights_snippet: Income generated from oil sales, organ harvesting, extortion and ransoms .
  
highlights_snippet: Militants also believed to make $1billion a year from drug sales - with half the heroin in Europe now thought to have come via ISIS .
  