International banks refused to deal with the Iraqis because of corruption
International banks refused to deal with the Iraqis because of corruption
Created on Monday, 07 October 1 / Okrudolf 2013 13:12
BAGHDAD / Walid al-Mahdi
Rejected Bank ( HSBC ) British global open bank accounts to Iraqis against the backdrop of the money laundering operations carried out by government officials. The Iraqi businessmen confirmed that a branch of the World Bank ( HSBC ) in Turkey refused to open bank accounts for Iraqis among them businessmen away from government projects.
Said businessman Kazim Ali al-Obeidi he had failed to open an account at a bank branch in the province of spare Turkish, as told by the branch manager that the Board of Directors of the Bank in the British capital (London) made a decision to prevent dealing with any Iraqi because of uncertainties about the wealth of most Iraqis in recent years which has seen explosive financial allocations Exchange with a capital increase Iraqi figures abruptly. As says the businessman Ahmed al-Tikriti, who refused his request as well: “The global economic institutions became involved with the Iraqis that they are” thieves of public funds and corrupt “, or at least hovering around doubts to smuggle money out and inserted investments universal. Bank is HSBC ( HSBC ), which was founded in the year 1865, the largest union group of banks and a coalition with the British Bank of the Middle East and has branches all over the world and based in London.
The Lebanese Central Bank recently acknowledged that its deposits excesses of about nine billion dollars in the first half of this year, mostly belonging to the Iraqi and foreign investors.
uragency.net
