Iraqi forces have captured a fugitive ISIL ringleader, who used to hold a “prominent” post within the Takfiri terror group.

Reporting on Saturday, Iraqi News website said the terror kingpin was captured in the al-Shaiqara village, north of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh Province.

The terrorist leader used to function as the Takfiri group’s “police chief” for Nineveh, collecting the revenues of its members.

Mosul, once ISIL’s so-called headquarters, was liberated last July, upon which the ringleader went into hiding in the Badush mountains in the province’s town of Tal Kaif.