Efforts to recover Iraqi money smuggled abroad
Efforts to recover Iraqi money smuggled abroad
04/01/2015
To Iraq, an official in the Commission on Public Integrity said the money contraband found in a number of Arab and foreign countries, indicating that those frozen money in banks or registered under false names, and the other in the form of real estate companies, and others, were seized mostly by the former regime or their families.
And the Director General of the recovery circuit in the Integrity Commission Mohammad Ali al-Lami, that the body has done this matter with the Ministry of Justice and the Justice and Accountability Commission, said he was negotiating for the recovery of smuggled money, pointing to the existence of response from some countries to help Iraq recover his money, and pointed to the formation of a committee joint from several quarters to recover that money.
He said al-Lami having trouble figuring out the money looted value in foreign banks, especially since the banking system refrain from disclosing information about dealers with him, noting that the Security Council has issued a number of decisions on the freezing of funds leaders of the former regime and their families, and that the states abide by them. Lami also said that Iraq will receive a judicial decision Lebanese money that the employee Pachtlasha years faithfully Baghdad pet before, amounting to five billion Iraqi dinars.
To the students of the Legal Committee in the House of Representatives member Salim Shawki activate Iraqi diplomatic effort with Arab and foreign countries to lay hands on the money looted, especially that Iraq is witnessing progress in the field of foreign relations.
He said Shawki that the Legal Committee will provide a proposal to the government to pursue recovery of the money stolen or smuggled file and in quite a few countries, the names of officials of the former regime or their children or families under false names.
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