Iraq retrieves millions of dollars within the anti-corruption campaign
Iraq retrieves millions of dollars within the anti-corruption campaign
Posted 14/08/2015 10:12 AM
Announced the Integrity Commission, for retrieval of huge sums to the state treasury seized from what she called “agents of banks eligibility.” A member of the body, Taha al-Rifai, said that the Commission was able to recover $ 12 million to the state treasury, he said, adding that the money seized by the community banks customers By manipulating the “electronic clearing” system. He pointed Taha that the Integrity Commission formed field teams to investigate and check the files that marred by corruption in all government institutions, especially the Ministries of Electricity and Trade and the secretariat of Baghdad and the Finance Ministry and other institutions, he said, adding “we seek to intensify our efforts, especially with the the existence of political and popular cover of our work. ” In a related context, the parliamentary finance committee revealed that the cost of fuel cars government officials of billion dollars a year. A member of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi Parliament, Haitham al-Jubouri, the anti-corruption process must start from scratch, and that’s what We are determined to do. “It is unreasonable to find that the cost of maintenance and fuel cars officials in the Iraqi state from the President of the Republic to general managers and members of parliament and members of provincial councils and until service institutions, amounting to one billion dollars annually, and this will not be after today.” He noted that the House of Representatives to reduce the salaries in Parliament, government officials and crews Hamayatem, will add to the general budget of $ 80 million annually, and that the return on reforms that Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued in general will provide to the state treasury about five billion dollars a year. In addition, announced the Central Investigating Court, the arrest of a group of employees of the Ministry of Interior admitted the withdrawal of loans of up to seven billion dinars ($ 6 million) from state banks. The head of the court, Judge Majid al-Araji, said in a statement, said that the defendants had used forged receipts Secretariat in the implementation of their operations.
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