American newspaper: find 1.6 billion dollars of Iraq’s money hidden vault in Lebanon
American newspaper: find 1.6 billion dollars of Iraq’s money hidden vault in Lebanon
Sunday, 12 October 1 / Okrudolf 2014 18:48
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Said the New York Times that “the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of funds Monetary Iraq, ended in the basement of a Lebanese where he found between 1.2 and 1.6 billion dollars, was stolen after the American invasion of Iraq were transported to the countryside of Lebanon to hide them in a safe place.”
The newspaper pointed out in its report, on Sunday, that “the American forces after the overthrow of former President Saddam Hussein in 2003, began convoys of trucks access to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on a regular basis, and unloading of goods is not unusual.”
It showed that “the money that has been withdrawn from the accounts of officials of the former Iraqi regime in the United States, has been transferred to Baghdad on aircraft c-17 of the United States Air Force, where she had hoped the administration of President George W. Bush to provide pumping Mali fast for the new Iraqi government and the ailing economy in the country. ”
The New York Times that “During the year and a half following year to enter the American troops, was sent between 12 and 14 billion dollars to Iraq by air, as well as five billion dollars electronically, but what happened to these funds after their arrival at Baghdad, has become one of the questions that No answer to her, during the chaos of the American entry, when it was pouring billions into the country from the United States was also widespread corruption. ”
The newspaper said the American “has become to find an answer to this question, and function Hajh Stuart Bowen, a friend of President Bush, who was appointed in 2004 as an inspector in particular, to investigate the corruption and waste of money in Iraq.”
The paper that “and before finishing his last year, was [Bowen] is believed to be partially succeeded in his mission, as it concluded that it may have used the Iraqi government a lot of money one way or another, but his team finally discovered that between 1.2 and 1.6 billion dollars been stealing and hiding them in the cellar in a rural area in Lebanon. ”
The investigator says the American According to the newspaper, “I do not know how the money was transferred to Lebanon, if we know this will achieve further progress on the issue.”
The New York Times says that “[Bowen] did not discuss the details of it publicly until now, but asserts that since entering the coalition countries Iraq was transferred billions of dollars from Iraq illegally.”
He adds investigator George Hajh Stuart Bowen in the disappearance of Iraqi money after 2003 that he “was disappointed because he had not been able to close the case, for reasons beyond his control,” .bhsp American newspaper.
According to the New York Times that “the frustration [Bowen] is also due to ignore the Bush administration to investigate reports of the disappearance of huge sums of Iraq, and even after the discovery of the cellar of the Lebanese, the management of the current president, Barack Obama did not pursue it,” adding that “[Bowen] believed that American inaction for tracking the money it is probably due to the Iraqi funds stolen by Iraqi “Ended
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