Al-Kazemi: Corruption has devoured more than 600 billion dollars of Iraqi money… Saddam’s body was thrown near my house
Al-Kazemi: Corruption has devoured more than 600 billion dollars of Iraqi money… Saddam’s body was thrown near my house
2023-03-12 21:23
Shafaq News/ The former Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, revealed that the rampant corruption in the state departments and institutions caused the devouring of more than 600 billion dollars of Iraqi money.
Al-Kazemi said, in an interview with the London-based newspaper, “Al-Sharq Al-Awsat”, in its issue issued today, Sunday, that “there are those who are trying to demonize me and blame my government for all the defects of the political system and previous governments in the past twenty years.”
He pointed out that corruption devoured more than $600 billion of Iraqi funds, which were used for the benefit of individuals, party and military entities, and regional roles.
He added, “Unfortunately, there are those who want to clean up their bad history in governance, and for this they blame the Al-Kazemi government, which has no party, militia, or parliamentary bloc,” accusing those parties of obstructing the work of his government.
Al-Kazemi considered the return of Iraq to its Arab depth as natural, while respecting the interests of all its neighbors, stressing that the Shiite authority in Iraq supports this approach.
He pointed out that Iraq sought to build its relations “from state to state” and on the basis of respect for mutual interests, noting that he sensed the interest of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in deepening and expanding Saudi-Iraqi relations.
Al-Kazemi acknowledged that his government had not succeeded in addressing the “problem of uncontrolled weapons,” and talked about the killings that targeted political activists, which were sometimes carried out by elements who infiltrated the security services during the era of previous governments.
He also talked about 3 assassination attempts that targeted him, one of which was a march that hit his house. He recounted that Saddam Hussein’s body was dumped after his execution near his home and the home of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the Green Zone.
Al-Kadhimi revealed that the confessions of a detainee led to a paper buried in the desert, which was found by the Iraqi services and helped the Americans eliminate “Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi”, the leader of the “ISIS” organization.
And about the former head of the regime, Saddam Hussein, Al-Kazemi said, “They threw his body between my house and the house of Mr. Nuri al-Maliki in the Green Zone after his execution. I refused this action, but I saw a group of guards gathered and asked them to move away from the body out of respect for the sanctity of the dead.”
He continued by saying that the body “was brought, and al-Maliki ordered at night to hand it over to one of the sheikhs of the al-Nada clan, which is Saddam Hussein’s clan, and they (i.e. his clan) received it from the Green Zone.”
Al-Kazemi confirmed that Saddam “was buried in Tikrit. After 2012, when ISIS took control (of the region), the grave was exhumed, and the body was moved to a secret place that no one knows until now. The graves of his children were tampered with.”
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