Results from the latest investigations in Russia have shown that more than 3,000 Russians help fund Daesh, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday.Russia has previously formed a government committee in order to dry up the sources financing "terrorism" as part of its plans to combat the financing of this phenomenon.These investigations showed that more than 3,000 Russians have made ​​donations to Daesh, which controls vast swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq. An Al Jazeera correspondent said the authorities were investigating these individuals.Previously, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan drew attention to the U.S. sanctions levied against Russian businessmen, including chess master Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who do oil business with Daesh.Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, 53, a wealthy Russian businessman and long-standing president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), was added by the U.S. to the list of people trading Daesh oil, in addition to eight others including Syrian businessman George Haswani who also holds a Russian passport. Known for his loyalty to Putin, Ilyumzhinov is a figure who had close ties with controversial leaders such as Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gadhafi and Syria's Bashar Assad. Following Turkey's downing of a Russian jet on Nov. 24, Russia started to carry out a smear campaign against Turkey with claims that the country has oil trade links with Daesh, but is yet to provide concrete evidence.At a briefing in Moscow on Dec. 2 organized by Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Anatoly Antonov, Russian defense ministry officials and the public were shown satellite images which revealed columns of tanker trucks loading oil at installations controlled by Daesh in Syria and Iraq, and then crossing over the border into neighboring Turkey. Antonov claimed that Turkey was trading oil with Daesh on an "industrial level."Germany's weekly news magazine Der Spiegel (The Mirror) analyzed every satellite image displayed at the Russian briefing and debunked the claims one by one in an article.Together with Turkish officials' dismissing such allegations, the U.S. had said that it did not agree with Russia's assertion. "We frankly see no evidence, none, to support such an accusation," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.Sherko Jawdat, the chairman of the KRG Parliament's Energy Committee, said on Dec.3 that the oil tankers shown in the aerial photos and footage presented by Russia as evidence of the alleged trade were in fact carrying oil from the KRG to Ceyhan terminal in southern Turkey. Furthermore, KRG spokesman Safin Dzayi said his government was saddened by Russian accusations, adding that "Russia's explanations are based on wrong sources."