Shabibi jailed 7 years

Shabibi jailed 7 years

Posted, 05-09-2014 09:51 PM

Shabibi jailed 7 yearsAccording to a source familiar with, today (Thursday 4 September / September 2014), that the judiciary has issued a seven-year prison sentence against the former central bank governor Sinan al-Shabibi.
The source said in a press statement, said that ‘the Iraqi judiciary issued on Thursday, sentenced to seven years against the former central bank governor Sinan al-Shabibi on the basis of the charges against him during his administration the central bank’.

It is noteworthy that the Supreme Judicial Council announced (October 19, 2012), for the issuance of an arrest warrant for central bank governor and many officials in corruption cases, after the media quoted, in (October 14, 2012), about the sources of control that the judiciary issued an arrest warrant for al-Shabibi on charges of corruption, noting that he escaped out of the country after the issuance of the note, with the bank denied those reports, saying that the governor was involved in an annual conference in Tokyo, and will return to Baghdad.

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