Deir ez-ZorIslamic State buried $47 million in gold, cash.
The group still taps caches to rebuild, the investigation found, despite a decade of tracing.
Buried gold cannot be frozen and costs nothing to hold, unlike bank transfers investigators trace.
The SIRAJ–New Lines investigation found three engineered sites, with more caches still unrecovered.
How each outlet framed it
- New Lines Magazine
- investigative mapping of Islamic State's buried treasure network (47M recovered) through declassified internal documents
Sources: New Lines Magazine