Iraqi banker close to al-Maliki escape $ 6.5 billion
Iraqi banker close to al-Maliki escape $ 6.5 billion
Sunday, September 04 2016
BAGHDAD – Naseer al-Naqib:
Prosecutors demanded the Iraqi finance minister, Hoshyar Zebari, to disclose the identity of the person who was able to smuggle $ 6.5 billion, and it was pointed out during a press statement. A judiciary spokesman Judge Abdul Sattar Bayraktar said that «Prosecutors formally request» from Finance Minister «to clarify his statements regarding the name of the person mentioned in one of the local media that« about 6.5 billion and a half billion dollars to «his personal account, in order to take action legal right, said Zebari, who face the threat of no-confidence, after questioning in parliament in Mali corrupted files session, channel «Tigris» TV local Iraqi that «only one person about $ 6 billion and 455 million to his personal account in a bank outside the country, but that member Finance Committee in the Iraqi parliament Haitham al-Jubouri revealed the name, stressing that «Hamad Yasser al-Moussawi, the owner Huda Bank Musawi was a candidate for a coalition« rule of law », led by former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, is considered a close associate of Nuri al-Jubouri said« We discovered Moussawi file and it has approached the money laundering Office in the Central Bank who wrote the report for the prosecution in March and confirmed the opening of 3 files on suspicion of involvement of bank Rafidain and Rasheed in the case and leads the al-Jubouri, a campaign questioning the Minister of Finance in the corruption files, relating to protection expenses file, and furnishing his home, and rent his secretary amount large, what he considered Zebari as «a political target but Zebari criticized al-Jubouri to about smuggling a large amount, saying the real files, these people where the money went? Who is responsible for? He stressed that it «formally documented and why not to take any action and follow-up funds? It is equal to the budget of the state.
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