Russian Report: Extremists Make Over $350 Billion Annually

Afghanistan has surpassed a record high of opium production, according to the 2014 report of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Infographics by TASS

TASS: Extremists make over $350 billion annually from drug production — Russia's drug control

The Russian official named Islamic State, Jundullah and the Balochistan Liberation Army as examples of such extremist groups

MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. The annual proceeds of extremist groups from the production of drugs amounts to more than $350 billion, Director of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) Viktor Ivanov said at the sixth meeting of the Central Asian anti-drug quintet (Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Iran) in Tehran on Monday.

"Financially, drugs are kind of foreign exchange reserves for the extremist quasi-public groups that are invested in the destruction of global and regional security. Let me remind you that this criminal fund annually launders through the banking system and injects in the criminal network infrastructure more than $350 billion, taking into account the production of cocaine and other drugs," FSKN press service quoted Ivanov as saying.

WNU Editor: $350 billion per year ?!?!?! We all know that drugs are a huge industry .... but is it that huge for militants? I am sceptical.