Iraq VI in money laundering operations and experts downplay the importance of the rankings

Iraq VI in money laundering operations and experts downplay the importance of the rankings

03/09/2014 (00:01 pm)

BAGHDAD / Ibrahim Ibrahim

Economists downplayed the importance of global reports talked about the situation in Iraq in the ranks of the most advanced countries Gusala of funds, stressing that he can not control money laundering operations only through the activation of strict laws and the most important law, “Where did you get this?” Which helps reducing the movement of money and know its troubled.

The economist said the appearance of Mohammed Saleh in an interview for the “long” that “money laundering operations are divided into several types, including tax evasion and fraud on the banking institutions in addition to the transfer of funds to support terrorist operations, and the drug trade.” “The tax system in Iraq does not produce any sums remember contribute to the GDP of the country so it can exclude the factor of tax evasion for the institute’s report concerned, either washing processes that support terrorism or drug trafficking is considered virtually non-existent or very few.”
said a former adviser at the Central Bank “The confusion is obvious in the security situation and economic development in the country has contributed to a reversal vision opaque institutions and international organizations competent in economic affairs and financial Therefore, we find numbers and sequences not conform to the reality of Iraq despite his extraordinary.”
and said the “process of transferring money through corrupt deals can not be passed in accordance with the spammers and laws place between Iraqi banks and banks of neighboring countries, and that the presence of surveillance equipment and check global oversee the work of most of the international banks. ”
and stressed that “the phenomenon of money laundering in Iraq can not be controlled, but to activate the strict laws of conversion processes and financial methods of harvesting these funds through the adoption of the Law ( From where did you get this) that can be applied to individuals and companies operating in the country. ”
and noted that “the standards of corruption in the Iraqi economy are great for that require real efforts by the government and regulators other to encircle the transmittance multiple according to the vision developed based high transparency in the process of remittances from inside the Iraqi market to the outside. ”
and pointed out that “censorship should be strong in the face of corruption by major construction projects are mostly fake or incomplete where the contractors of embezzling money and then turn them abroad to be invested in various ways.”
said the report of the Institute Government in Basel, Switzerland, that Iraq ranked sixth in the world in terms of the highest risk in the fight against money laundering, adding that the lower states of the world to the risk of money laundering, including Finland and Estonia.
Institute said in a report published on its website and seen by the “long”, that “Iraq is occupied ranked sixth in the world in the highest risk AML as the top countries of the risks, “he said, adding that” these countries included the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Tajikistan, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Mali, Swaziland, Mozambique and Myanmar. ”
and included a report issued by the Institute 19 countries Arab 10 of which came above average, including Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq, while the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Yemen in the last three mattresses, has been ranked among the twenty state most at risk in the world, where the report included 162 countries. The institute said that “six African countries were the biggest threat in the fight against money laundering among the countries of Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Uganda,” pointing out that “less countries of the world to the risk of money laundering, including Finland and Estonia.”
It is noteworthy that the frequency of the accusations escalated on operations currency smuggling which cast a shadow on the sale price of the dollar in the local markets and led to an increased rate of exchange a few months ago, while lawmakers have demanded the need to take the initiative on the government to stop selling the currency at auctions the central bank, others stressed that Iraq is losing big money due to smuggled daily out border, despite tribute to many of the specialists in economic affairs on the positives of the auction to reduce the rates of inflation and to control the value of the Iraqi dinar.
was the Parliamentary Integrity Commission revealed, in (July 20, 2013), that the size of the Iraqi money that “smuggled” out of the country since 2003, up to 130 billion dollars, in addition to the prosecution of 120 government officials, including ministers and directors of procurators, linked to the files of financial corruption and money contraband.
revealed TI, earlier, that Iraq sits in the “depths of the bottomless corruption rates in the world,” which led to “raise “Political violence and causing” damage “the process of building a state of” effective and the lack of “providing services as Iraq is still” a failure “in the delivery of basic services adequately, and that 23% of his sons are still” living extreme poverty “, while showed that although government initiatives to combat corruption, they are still “stuttering” did not come announcement by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the fight against corruption within 100 days in the year 2011 the past, to “any positive result,” questioned the will of the government and its commitment to anti-corruption efforts.
was the United Nations announced that, in (the 19th of June 2013), that the ratios of administrative corruption in the Iraqi “continues to increase,” asserting that about 60 percent of the civil servants in Iraq, “they offered to take bribes, while confirming that the ratios of corruption in Baghdad, higher than in the rest of the provinces, while it was governorates of the Kurdistan region, at least, indicating that the Iraqi forced to pay a bribe “four times a year,” on average, and confirmed that corruption increases if the transaction was with the police or the staff of real estate.
, and is the phenomenon of corruption, the biggest challenge to the security side, facing the Iraqi governments since the end of American war on Iraq in 2003.obulgt levels of corruption in Iraq, an end has led to specialized international organizations and developed among the most corrupt countries in the world, with a solution of Iraq in 2012, the last in third place in terms of the level of corruption in it.

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