BAGHDAD: Baghdad has given international investigators full powers to expose the “corrupt” and will question three former prime ministers
BAGHDAD: Baghdad has given international investigators full powers to expose the “corrupt” and will question three former prime ministers
2017/11/24 11:47
Baghdad today – follow-up
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Twenty-one international investigators will arrive in Baghdad at the end of this month to open the corruption files of former prime ministers Nuri al-Maliki, Iyad Allawi and Ibrahim al-Jaafari as part of Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s plan to fight corruption.
The newspaper quoted the site “views” of Iraq, which in turn transferred the sources described as “special” in the office of Prime Minister Haider Abadi, according to a report published today, and his “Baghdad Today,” saying that “in a step indicating the Iraqi government’s response to The demands of Iraqi citizens to investigate cases of corruption, the 21 international investigators will arrive in Baghdad at the end of this month to conduct investigations into files of financial corruption of former prime ministers, based on a memorandum of understanding signed by the Iraqi government with the United Nations last week, “while sources drew” views ” That “investigators have been given the authority to investigate with heads The former ministers are: Iyad Allawi (2004-2005), Ibrahim Jaafari (2005-2006) and Nuri al-Maliki (2006-2014), as well as other former ministers. ”
The sources said, according to the report, “Okaz,” that “international investigators, all Western but one Arab from Jordan, were given full freedom to examine files and documents and review records and documents of ministries and the Central Bank and the Board of Financial Control in Baghdad,” indicating that “investigators have the authority to investigate with Officials who are currently abroad also, thanks to the status of the UN team that authorizes it. ”
Abadi has formally asked the United Nations to help him reveal the fate of $ 361 billion missing from the country’s budgets between 2004 and 2014, as well as the fate of thousands of projects and investments in the sectors of electricity, housing and agriculture, while other reports say that the theft of public funds in Iraq amounted to About 850 billion dollars.
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