People close to Al-Halbousi were arrested at Baghdad airport on major corruption charges

People close to Al-Halbousi were arrested at Baghdad airport on major corruption charges

3-7-2023

People close to Al-Halbousi were arrested at Baghdad airport on major corruption chargesInformation / Anbar..
A source in Anbar Governorate revealed, on Tuesday, the arrest of the Anbar retirement director and his assistant after they were lured into Baghdad for their involvement in major financial and administrative corruption operations amid secrecy by the Taqaddam Party headed by Muhammad al-Halbousi.

The source said, in a statement to Al-Maalouma, that “a security force arrested the director of Anbar retirement and a leader in the Taqaddam party, Anas Al-Alwani, while he was trying to travel to Jordan, hours after his assistant was arrested and lured to Baghdad, on the grounds that judicial orders were issued against those targeted, on the grounds of suspicions of financial and administrative corruption against him.” detainees.”

The source, who preferred to remain anonymous, added that “the force lured the two targets and then arrested them in Baghdad,” indicating that “the arrests were issued by one of the judicial courts in Baghdad, and they were handed over to the medical authority for interrogation by the Anti-Corruption Committee,” stressing that the influential political parties In the local Anbar government, the media kept silent about the arrest of the directors of those departments who belong to their parties.

Sheikh Ahmad al-Dulaimi, one of the sheikhs and notables of Anbar province, had admitted earlier that Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi used his influence to prevent the prosecution of those involved in the theft of public money from his party.

Al-Dulaimi said in a statement to Al-Maalouma Agency, “The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Muhammad al-Halbousi, in coordination with influential parties in the central government, hid large files of corruption in the municipality, real estate registration, tax and retirement departments in Anbar Governorate, for fear that they would be referred to the judiciary, as they are leaders of the Taqaddam Party.”

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