24 days after Al-Kazemi’s departure, 7 major corruption files are revealed
24 days after Al-Kazemi’s departure, 7 major corruption files are revealed
11-21-2022
Information/Baghdad..
The past 24 days, which is the end of Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’a al-Sudani’s rule, opened 7 major corruption files, including espionage and theft of billions of dollars, to enter the current government with a test of the credibility of the orientation towards fighting corruption, amid calls for the President of the Supreme Judicial Council, Faiq Zaidan, to open files without restriction.
And the government of Muhammad Shia’a Al-Sudani launched the first round of the anti-corruption file by revealing the file of tax money theft, followed by theft of customs money, and then corruption in the ministries of defense and agriculture, which imported carcinogenic fertilizers, to conclude the seventh episode of corruption with the hero of the story, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, who was accused by detainees in Al-Muthanna prison of involvement in their torture. And imprisoned them after the disagreement over the brokerage share with the Asiacell Telecom Company.
In this regard, the independent Kurdish politician, Beston Faeq, calls on the official authorities to open an immediate investigation regarding what he called the great cry against corruption, noting that the testimonies of prisoners detained on corruption charges indicate the collapse of the state after the distribution of corrupt money arrived in the office of former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi.
Faeq said in a statement to Al-Maalouma that “Iraq is suffering from a corruption crisis that has reached a stage in the entire political process, and the current government must take the necessary measures to revive the political process and then launch an extensive campaign.”
He added, “The torture of prisoners and the extracting of evidence from them due to the pressures of the corrupt and from within the office of the former prime minister reveals a serious scale of incursion that brought the political process to the point of suffocation.”
He pointed out that “corruption extends from the north to the south and from west to east without any accountability amid popular discontent that may pave the way for a crisis of confidence or even protests, so everyone must remedy the crisis before it reaches the stage of explosion.”
Earlier, Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, Alia Nassif, announced her intention to host the managing director of Asiacell next Monday to discuss the fourth generation license and the company’s debts.
The leader of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Ghazanfar al-Batekh, called on the Public Prosecutor to summon the former director of the intelligence service, Raed Jouhi, after revealing a new scandal represented by his receipt of a bribe estimated at $100 million in exchange for overcoming the debts owed by the Aseel Cell company.
Al-Battikh said in a statement to Al-Maalouma, “The scandal that was revealed recently regarding the involvement of the head of the intelligence service, Raed Jouhi, in receiving a financial bribe estimated at $100 million in exchange for overtaking the debts owed to the Aseel Cell Communications Company, requires the Iraqi judiciary and the Public Prosecution to summon Jouhi and take action.” legal rights against him.
He added, “Juhi is the planner and executor of all the movements that Al-Kazemi made during his presidency of the government, including blackmailing and arresting opponents, attaching malicious charges to them, and taking confessions by force, especially in the intelligence service and the anti-corruption agency, which was run by Al-Kazemi’s stepson, Lieutenant General Ahmed Abu Ragheef.”
It should be noted that the Prime Minister decided earlier to terminate the assignment of Raed Jouhi from his positions as director of the Prime Minister’s Office and head of the intelligence service, while parliamentary and political calls for holding him accountable for the charges against him escalated.
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