Bankers: hard currency smuggled into Iran through Kurdistan
Bankers: hard currency smuggled into Iran through Kurdistan
Created on Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:32
Baghdad / Ahmed Yassin
Attributed a number of owners of banking offices in Baghdad, the high exchange rate of the U.S. dollar against the Iraqi dinar to the smuggling of hard currency to the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and from there to Iran amid speculation confidential.
He said one of the owners of banking offices in Saadoun Street that the exchange rates of the U.S. dollar against the Iraqi dinar now arrived in the purchase price of approximately 129 thousand dinars, and the sale price by 128 thousand in the various markets and commercial areas of the capital.
He added that the speculative operations and withdraw foreign currency from the banking offices, civil and private banks have been converted into northern Iraq and the Kurdistan region, including being smuggled to Iran, which is trying to revive its economy is currently the center of the existing international circumstances.
Refer the owner of another banking office in the Mansour district high exchange rate of the dollar due to growing demand from customers, citizens and financial speculation processes that take place between unknown destinations to buy hard currency and transfer to neighboring countries, leading to a price rise in commercial markets.
He added that the central bank has pumped $ 300 million a day after he was pumped about $ 200 million for control of the high exchange rate of the dollar, but these attempts did not work.
Turn carrying member of the Committee on Economy and Investment parliamentary deputy Aziz Mayahi, the Central Bank of Iraq responsible for the high dollar exchange rates. Mayahi said that the central bank is responsible for maintaining the balance of the market and control the exchange rate of the dollar and to find appropriate mechanisms to lower it.
Mayahi accused staff at the central bank standing behind the high price of the dollar, he said, “they are most of the beneficiaries of the increase in the purchase price to what it is now because of the complexity of their relationships with a lot of suspicious customers and banks,” and urged to change these employees of the Central Bank.
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