Iraq possesses important documents on money smuggling abroad
Iraq possesses important documents on money smuggling abroad
2020-10-21
The head of the Change Bloc in the House of Representatives, Yusuf Muhammad, admitted, on Wednesday, the existence of important judicial and banking documents on smuggling Iraqi funds abroad through spoilers, expecting that their value would reach tens of billions of dollars.
“It is imperative that the authorities take strict measures against the corrupt and stop the drain of Iraqi funds through corruption, in parallel with implementing what is found in the white economic reform paper,” Muhammad said in a statement.
He added, “The financial situation in the country requires difficult and bitter decisions in restructuring the economy in the country,” noting that “these reforms have no value without there being decisive measures to combat corruption.”
The head of the Change Bloc in the House of Representatives called for “attaching great importance to the file of recovering Iraqi money smuggled abroad after 2003 during the next stage, and for the political class in the country to assume its responsibility towards the economic crisis, and to help return those money through what it possesses information about it.”
He stressed, “The presence of important documents in this file through which the existence of these funds and their value can be inferred, in cooperation with European expertise that the government can use in order to uncover them,” pointing to “the existence of appropriate grounds in some European countries and the United States of America to help other countries return Smuggled money obtained through corruption. ”
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