Among them is a former minister … Parliamentary integrity: requests for arrest and lifting the immunity of MPs

Among them is a former minister … Parliamentary integrity: requests for arrest and lifting the immunity of MPs

04/23/2021 14:29:01

Among them is a former minister ... Parliamentary integrity - requests for arrest and lifting the immunity of MPsThe Parliamentary Integrity Committee revealed that requests for arrest and the lifting of legal immunity from a group of parliament members have been received.

A member of the committee, Kazem Al-Shari, said in a press statement, today, Friday, that “a number of arrest requests are accompanied by lifting the immunity of a group of deputies, including four linked to the case being investigated by the government anti-corruption committee, while some of them resulted from personal complaints.”
And he stated, “The request to lift the immunity of the current deputy and former Minister of Electricity, Abdel-Karim Aftan, was received from the judiciary before the arrest of the leader of the Al-Hal Party, Jamal Karbouli,” pointing out that, “after the arrest of Karbouli, no arrest warrant, summons, or the like was issued to any political or parliamentary figure.” Noting at the same time that “the governmental anti-corruption committee has not yet announced the results of the investigation in that case.”
It is noteworthy that a security force under the authority of the Anti-Corruption Commission arrested the head of the Al-Hal party, a member of the “resolve” coalition, at dawn last Sunday.
Last August, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi formed a special committee to investigate major corruption files, and assigned the tasks of implementing arrest warrants to a special force headed by the Prime Minister.
Transparency International ranks Iraq among the most corrupt countries in the world over the past years.

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