Abadi: billions of dollars withdrawn the previous government does not know its fate
Abadi: billions of dollars withdrawn the previous government does not know its fate
Saturday, September 27th, 2014 18:34
Baghdad / follow Baghdadi News / .. Abadi said during a meeting held by the members of the three presidencies at the invitation of President of the Republic at the Peace Palace in Baghdad, said the previous government withdrew billions of dollars from the fund, which kept the oil revenue was unaccounted for after, according to a source close to him.
The source added that al-Abbadi accused implicitly “his predecessor, former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to withdraw billions of dollars from the Development Fund for Iraq” EDF Aye. “And Abadi said that the process of withdrawal of such huge amounts of money has something personal of Mr. al-Maliki, and bills of exchange provided is not accurate and clearly indicate to the scam was exposed big treasury Iraq and that he will pursue the perpetrators of this crime, whatever their positions, according to the same source.
This confirmed members of the parliamentary finance committee that the government admitted to them that the fund is not where currently only three billion dollars, while the Council of Ministers says he has a six billion dollars last month.
Usually found in the Development Fund for Iraq “EDF Aye” about 10 billion dollars to ensure salary payments and government expenditures, and critics say the government’s policies that it took advantage of the absence of law for the budget and involved spending more than the normal limit, amid ambiguity about the expenses of war and emergency conditions, and warnings of bankruptcy Fund returns and the state’s inability to meet financial obligations.
Deputies said they had asked specialists from the Government of Haider Abadi documentation describes the revenues and expenses to make sure of seemingly contradictory information about the amounts of the Fund.
For its part, explained MP for the Kurdistan Alliance, a member of the Finance Committee temporary Najiba Najib “The committee demanded that the Ministry of Finance to provide us with data on the amount of money deposited in the fund,” EDF Aye. ”
It pointed out that “the Minister of Finance and agency purity Net said in August that there are six billion dollars in the fund, and then returned during hosted in the House of Representatives recently mentioned that the remaining balance in the fund is (3) billions of dollars” in contradiction up to half.
Experts fear that covet the government to borrow from the cash reserve at the central bank, estimated at up to 60 billion dollars, warning that it has many consequences, including the collapse of the currency exchange rate Mahlah.anthy 21
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