Official newspaper, secret departments await a government campaign targeting large whales
Official newspaper, secret departments await a government campaign targeting large whales
9/22/2020 8:38
The official EIN News Agency reported, on Tuesday, that “secret circles” surround what it described as “big whales”, awaiting a government campaign against corruption, noting that there are increasing calls for “beating corrupt people” in Kirkuk governorate and the Kurdistan region.
The newspaper said, “The secret circles surrounding the heads and whales of large corruption are awaiting the next steps that the executive authority will take to strike corruption within the campaign that began days ago.”
The newspaper quoted a parliamentary source as saying, “98 percent of the work of the permanent committee on corruption crimes has not yet started And it will be launched in the near future stage, “pointing to the escalation of” calls for the campaign to hit the corrupt in other areas outside Baghdad, including Kirkuk and the Kurdistan region.
The newspaper continued, “The government has stated in more than one statement that the arrest of some figures is only the beginning of the work of the permanent committee to combat corruption and major crime files that was formed under the leadership of the human rights chief, Major General Ahmed Abu Ragheef, and these arrests constitute only 2 percent of the committee’s work, amid expectations that they will be Most of the committee’s work in the next phase is directed at whales and large dragon heads accused of corruption.
She added, “The House of Representatives, as a body that exercises an oversight role, raises dozens of corruption files to the Integrity Commission, which in turn transferred it to the Supreme Judicial Council to take measures against those convicted of those files.”
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