Supreme Judicial Council calls for lifting the immunity of deputies accused of corruption

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2 hours ago, SnowGlobe7 said:

the undies or the "drawers"...he he he

 

 

 

Getting into my wife's " drawers " - my wife's " undies "  Golly, hmmm.

[ChuckFinley]

49 minutes ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

Damn I look great don't I !!!!!!

You should have your own window in Amsterdam.  

[King Bean]

2 hours ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

Damn I look great don't I !!!!!!

 

      That's what SHE said !!! 

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42 minutes ago, King Bean said:

 

      That's what SHE said !!! 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!! 

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2 hours ago, ChuckFinley said:

You should have your own window in Amsterdam.  

Made more $$$$$$$$ as an Exotic Dancer 💃------ok this has jumped totally off the 

rails. 

[NoviceInvestor]

Dont keep us in suspense ..Arrest them..Name them and Prosecute them and lets get on with it...

[Rockymtnhi]

Probably just fake news.  Doubt anyone goes to jail.  Everyone of them is corrupt.  

[DinarDavo]

16 minutes ago, Rockymtnhi said:

Probably just fake news.  Doubt anyone goes to jail.  Everyone of them is corrupt.  

 

It makes it sound like they are doing something when in fact they (the "Integrity Committee") are probably shaking down everyone on the wanted list....  

[nannab]

1 hour ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!! 

 

  I am now going blind just I had to it the more button.   GROOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 

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1 hour ago, nannab said:

 

  I am now going blind just I had to it the more button.   GROOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 

  

[King Bean]

On ‎9‎/‎7‎/‎2017 at 5:30 AM, yota691 said:

"There are gaps between the arms of the supervisory bodies such as the Integrity Commission, the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, the Financial Control Bureau, the Anti-Corruption Committees and others, and the lack of coordination that hinders the fight against corruption in the fullest manner," committee member Abdul Karim Abtan told Mawazine News. The anti-corruption file requires a serious and genuine will to get rid of this scourge. There are intentions, but they are lacking in will.

 

There it is in a nutshell. Committee, committee, committee....and lack of will to pursue. Mostly because they're all crooks.  And they want the UN to come in and clean up their mess for them. Pathetic.

[King Bean]

10 hours ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

  

 

Nice but.............red is more manly.

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4 hours ago, King Bean said:

 

Nice but.............red is more manly.

 

Youre right - Red is DEAD SEXY !!!!!!

[yota691]

SIGIR: Transfer of 23 financial and administrative corruption cases to the Integrity Commission

14/09/2017

 

 

 

(Independent) - The Office of the Inspector-General in the Office of the Sunni Endowment revealed the transfer of 23 cases of financial and administrative corruption to the Integrity Commission.

"The Office of the Inspector-General of the Sunni Endowment has referred 23 cases to the Integrity Commission and the competent courts," the office said in a statement received by the Independent.

The statement pointed to "the issuance of 18 judicial rulings on cases of financial and administrative corruption."

[yota691]

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18 ministers and 5 corrupt governors on the prosecution list

 Baghdad / Mohammed Sabah 
 

A United Nations team and experts are advising a tripartite committee formed by the Supreme Judicial Council, the Integrity Commission and the Parliamentary Integrity Commission to review and audit contracts concluded by government agencies over the past decade. 
After reviewing 650 files for previous decades, the international team, in conjunction with the Tripartite Commission, found many irregularities that led to the issuance of arrest warrants against five former and current governors and more than 18 former and current ministers or ministers. 
Al-Mada revealed in February that an international team, assisted by seven government, parliamentary and judicial committees, was working to recover the smuggled Iraqi funds by conducting surveys of all files related to the entry and exit of funds within two years.
MP Talal al-Zobaie, chairman of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, revealed in an interview with Al-Mada yesterday the formation of a tripartite committee composed of the Higher Judicial Council, the Integrity Commission and the Parliamentary Integrity Committee for auditing and research in 650 previous files covering all ministries and departments of the Iraqi state. 
Zobaie added that "the results of this committee motivated the elimination of the movement in a real and serious way to prosecute all elements involved in corruption, which issued arrest warrants," stressing that "the offices of inspectors general in all ministries provided great cooperation with the Tripartite Commission and provided information and data to prove the existence of some violations, . The head of the Integrity Committee pointed out that "the review and opening of some of the government files by the Tripartite Commission led us to monitor the violations committed by the Director of the Agricultural Equipment Company, with the participation of a large number of senior officials in the Ministry of Agriculture, who were issued arrest warrants."

The Al-Rusafa Court of Misdemeanor Court issued a two-year sentence for Issam Jafar Aliwi, director general of agricultural equipment, for his involvement in wasting public money. 
Aliawi was arrested when he tried to leave Iraq at the Iranian border in Basra, one day after being smuggled from a prison in Baghdad. 
Video recordings revealed the involvement of the former deputy of the Free Bloc Jawad al-Shuhaili in the smuggling operation director of the Agricultural Equipment Company. Last week, the Interior Ministry announced the arrest of Jawad al-Shuhaili as a result of his involvement in the smuggling operation at the Ministry of Agriculture. 
"After reviewing the files of contracts in the Ministry of Razaa, it became clear to us that a contract was found to refer to the disbursement of large amounts to the contract of processing some agricultural machinery is the one who brought us to the Director of agricultural equipment and large financial violations."
Investigations conducted by the Tripartite Commission have led to the manipulation and waste of public money that will result in the issuance of arrest warrants against large and 
influential figures . "The judiciary has issued new arrest warrants demanding more than 18 ministers and those of the rank of minister in the current government and the previous preliminary investigations have proved their involvement in financial and administrative corruption by reviewing some files of contracts with their signatures." Zobaie recognizes the political pressures exerted by the parliamentary blocs on his committee in order to cover up some corrupt, revealing "the transfer of the files of 22 employees in the Ministry of Health and the degree of Under-Secretary General to the judiciary because of suspicions of corruption."


"The tripartite committee meets continuously with a specialized team of the United Nations, which has taken over the training of Iraqi judges on how to conduct investigations with corrupt people and to search and scrutinize all files and contracts," he said. 
A UN team began more than a year ago to look for smuggled Iraqi funds over the past years, in accordance with an agreement signed by the Abadi government with the United Nations obliging all countries to cooperate with the Iraqi government to recover the money smuggled. 
"The Ministry of Industry is considered one of the most corrupt ministries, followed by the defense and interior, which works the tripartite committee to review all files to reach the real evidence in preparation for referral of those involved in the judiciary."
"The reasons for the prosecution of some governors are due to the results of the Tripartite Commission, which began to check the files of all governorates from 2009 onwards a few days ago, and revealed the involvement of a large number of conservatives stealing and wasting public money." "The existence of new arrest warrants will extend five former and current governors after the disclosure of violations in contracts referred to some companies." The governor of Salah al-Din sentenced the governor of Salahaddin for two years on charges of financial and administrative corruption, former governor of Anbar province Suhaib al-Rawi for one year suspended on charges of corruption and the fugitive governor of Basra, Majid al-Nasrawi. In a related context, revealed the Integrity Commission, the issuance of a strong prison sentence for three years against the President of the Basra Provincial Council Sabah al-Bezouni.



"A verdict was issued against the head of the Basra provincial council, Sabah Hassan Mohammed al-Bezouni, who is serving a three-year prison sentence based on Article 319," the agency said in a statement received on Wednesday. 
The statement added that "the investigations department of the Commission, referring to the details of the case, to the arrival of the court to the full conviction of the conviction of the benefit of the Albzuni from a civil company in return for forwarding a number of projects to that company," noting that "the court decided to rule on the basis of the requirement A judgmental provision that is capable of challenge and discrimination ". 
The Supreme Judicial Council decided to transfer the case of the convicted Azzurani to the courts of the capital Baghdad, after the latter questioned the impartiality of the judiciary in the province of Basra. Al-Bezouni submitted to the judiciary on three counts related to waste of public funds and the use of bribes and unlawful disposal of customs revenues in the province of Basra.
On July 5, the Integrity Commission issued a memorandum to the head of Basra province, which is politically descended from the coalition of the state of law. The competent court in Basra issued a decision on Sunday to arrest Sabah al-Bezouni for seven days to investigate corruption and administrative corruption charges.

[yota691]

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Observers: The government's efforts are shy in pursuing the corrupt

 Baghdad / AFP 
 

The Iraqi authorities did not hesitate to accept the request of the governor of Salahaddin to equip his cell and detention center, in the center of the capital Baghdad, with air conditioning, citing the matter as state funds, which the official accused of embezzling! After three years of war against an oppressive organization, the Iraqi authorities began a shy movement to fight corruption, beginning operations by arresting governors and government officials, some of whom managed to escape outside the country, in what observers called the "whaling season." In addition to the governor of Salah al-Din, the Integrity Commission stopped the director of Iraqi Airways, although it is politically supported, in reference to the desire of the authorities to eliminate this phenomenon. According to Transparency International, Iraq is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, ranking 166th in a list of 176 countries with a score of 17 out of 100. The security issue, despite its permanent presence, remains in control of the country's political space. Many officials have been imprisoned. As the governor of Anbar was sacked and the former governor of Baghdad faces charges of corruption. After the Basra governor fled the country, the director of agricultural equipment, accused of embezzling $ 26 million, escaped from his prison in Baghdad before being re-arrested at an outlet on the Iranian border. Collusion of a former deputy. According to the Center for the "success of economic development," looted funds over the past 13 years amounted to 312 billion dollars, of the country's budgets amounted to 800 billion dollars. "The pace of uncovering and prosecuting corrupt people has finally escalated, although it seems so far a modest pace that does not rise to the minimum level of ambition," said Jassim al-Hilfi, an activist in popular demonstrations. "Corruption has become a rampant phenomenon, . "We have launched a serious campaign against corruption similar to the campaign we launched against terrorism," said Prime Minister Haider Abadi.
In the same context, Ihsan al-Shammari, an academic close to the prime minister's office, told AFP that "the most parties view the state institutions as a source of funding for their political activities." He pointed out that "quotas are the ones who established the concept of political compromises that were a cover to protect the corrupt." The former Iraqi government has spent about $ 40 billion on the electric power sector over the past years and the country still suffers from a severe shortage. The government also spent hundreds of millions of dollars on explosives detectors that later turned out to be unworkable in a country devastated by bloody attacks. Abadi took office three years ago, after a third of the country's lands fell into the hands of an oppressive organization, accompanied by a major oil price collapse.

The political analyst and legal expert Tariq al-Mamouri told AFP that "Abadi took power three years ago, came with the advent of the call and control of the country, and hit the corrupt at the high level in that period was leading to confusion can not tolerate the country," adding, "I think that Abadi start In striking big heads because the situation of corruption has reached an incredible and impossible to tolerate. "

[boosterbglee]

Thoughts and prayers for you Sno, it hurts a lot!

[yota691]

Iraq’s next battle: corruption By: Olivier Holmey Published on: Thursday, September 28, 2017 Iraq’s former industry minister, Mohammed Alderajy, is brutally honest about the country’s culture of corruption and resistance to reform. The banking sector is far from immune. He says a new attitude is needed if Iraq is to improve its prospects for reconstruction. Order Mohammed Alderajy, former member of parliament for Baghdad At an early July conference in London aimed at promoting investment in Iraq, Mohammed Alderajy stood before a roomful of businessmen and public officials from Iraq and the UK.  Much had been said in the preceding talks about Iraq’s famously systemic corruption: investors were afraid their money would go toward paying bribes and that, because of nepotism, unfit individuals would be put in charge of projects they had funded. Alderajy, a two-time Iraqi minister and former member of parliament for Baghdad, wanted to address that issue.  “We hear [that] every time we attend conferences about corruption,” he said. “I’m not denying that.” But he added, in defence of his country’s government: “The corruption is everywhere, but at certain levels. The transparency in Iraqi media and the new democracy in Iraq allows a lot of talk about corruption. But, to be honest with you, the only country in the Middle East that publishes its oil revenue on a website is Iraq. In other countries in the region, their people don’t know what they have. Some states surrounding Iraq, it’s a one-man-show for their revenue. So, we need to look carefully at corruption in the whole region, not just in Iraq. I would say the corruption in Iraq is at an acceptable level and needs to be improved. And the government takes very strong actions against any corruption in Iraq.” Who is this man who at once said corruption was “everywhere”, but also that it was at an “acceptable level”? Intrigued, Euromoney spoke briefly with Alderajy after his presentation. Off the stand, he opened up further about Iraq’s troubled business culture and struck a less forgiving tone toward those responsible for the mess the country finds itself in. He homed in on the country’s banks, some of which he said were not up to international standards and were profiting from an excessively advantageous exchange rate from the central bank.  “It’s part of the corruption,” he said of Iraq’s banking sector, pointing to ties between some of the country’s financial institutions and its politicians. “This issue is of primary importance. A lot of people are suffering from it.” Civil engineering Wanting to find out more about Alderajy’s experience of business and politics in Iraq, we suggested a more formal interview later that same week. Alderajy, who is British-Iraqi and has a home in Little Venice in London, suggested a meeting at Café Laville. Located at the northern end of Edgware Road – the most Arab street in London, with its rows of Middle Eastern shops and shisha bars – Café Laville overlooks the canal in this leafy western district. On a sweltering summer day, it almost feels like being in Baghdad, where Alderajy still spends most of his time. The café is just a few minutes away from the London Borough of Brent, where Alderajy worked for many years as an engineer. Alderajy studied civil engineering in Iraq and, after graduating in 1993, worked on road construction for a family business. He left the country in 1995 because of “the situation after the sanctions and Kuwait invasion and tension between the Shia and the regime”. Alderajy is himself a Shia, although he does not dwell on that fact, saying it “doesn’t make any difference”.  He worked on engineering projects in Tunisia, Libya and Malaysia. Then in 1999 he came to London, where he obtained a Master of Science degree at London South Bank University. After that, he worked for British private-sector firms, before joining Brent Council as a senior engineer. In early 2003, he was one of 10 Iraqi exiles who met the then UK foreign secretary Jack Straw before the Iraq war to give him first-hand accounts of life under Saddam Hussein. Alderajy, then 31 years old, reportedly asked Straw what would happen to Iraq after a war, to which the foreign secretary replied there was a “flexible plan”.  “I don’t know what that means,” Alderajy reportedly said, “but we want to see democracy.” In 2007, Alderajy moved to Doha, Qatar, where he worked as a construction manager, before returning to Brent Council in 2009, this time as large projects team leader. In that capacity he worked on Wembley Stadium – its crowd management plan, CCTV cameras and public announcement system – as well as on the regeneration of Harlesden Town Centre and various other projects.  Family pride The following year, he returned to Iraq and launched a career in politics. Asked why he did so, he says: “Because of my public base in Iraq and family pride – all these things. We have our roots in Iraq.” He stood in the 2010 parliamentary elections in Baghdad – a constituency where the 71 candidates who obtain the most votes are elected. He says he ranked somewhere in the 40s out of about 9,000 candidates. (He ran again in 2014 and came third out of 11,000.) Alderajy, who was then close to Muqtada al-Sadr, the powerful Iraqi Shia cleric and politician, joined parliament as a member of the National Iraqi Alliance, a coalition mainly composed of Shia Islamist parties. Nine months later, in December 2010, he was appointed minister of housing and construction in the government of then prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. His rise from an engineering post in Brent to a position of great political responsibility in Iraq was remarkably swift. But that was then relatively common in Iraq, as expatriates returned to the country after the fall of Saddam and the government looked for new officials to replace the previous regime’s administration.  There he was, a man with no experience of politics and who had lived as an expatriate for a decade and a half, back in Iraq and in charge of key aspects of the country’s reconstruction.  This environment encourages corruption. Corruption is not just with bribes and taking money. Mismanagement is corruption, lack of planning is corruption.   - Mohammed Alderajy Kusay Jawad, a director at Iraq Energy, a policy institute that advises the Iraqi parliament on energy policy and economic reform, tells Euromoney that Alderajy soon found himself stuck in a rut. “Al-Sadr was desperately looking for people,” he says, “so pushed for that guy as minister. But his hands were tied. You come into a corrupt ministry and your hands are tied.” Responsible for the country’s roads and housing, Alderajy soon realized how difficult a task he had ahead of him. He at first left the housing problem to one side, as solving it seemed too daunting a task, especially without private-sector help. “It was a challenge,” Alderajy says. “I concentrated on roads, because the housing problem in Iraq is very difficult to resolve. For 40 years, nothing has been built in Iraq.” The shortage in housing had reached 2.5 million units, he says. Eventually, he put together a strategy to solve the country’s housing crisis. But, he says, “nobody helped”. He built complexes and set up a $500 million housing fund, called Sandook al Iskan, to provide prospective homeowners with interest-free mortgages. About 130,000 housing units were built, funded either directly by the central budget or by the housing fund. “The main work I did was on roads and bridges,” Alderajy says. “We built around 1,400 kilometres of new roads and did maintenance on 4,500km of roads and 11 bridges. All in three years. Despite these achievements, Alderajy quickly discovered the obstacles to implementing reform in Iraq. “There were a lot of challenges,” he says. “Sometimes political competitors, they didn’t want me to work, they didn’t want me to succeed.” Asked if corruption was one of the difficulties he faced, he says: “Look, the level of corruption in Iraq is at all levels, not just the government. The level of corruption in the middle- and low-level employees is much higher than at high level, because, unfortunately, after the sanctions between 1991 and 2003, the social mentality has been changed in Iraq. The principles have changed due to the need for money and jobs.” He reiterates the point he made at the conference, that some countries have much higher levels of corruption than Iraq. Few countries do, however. Last year, Iraq ranked the 11th most corrupt country in the world in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. In contrast, Alderajy says he was as clean as could be. Asked about the apparently common habit in Iraq of securing funding for phantom projects, then pocketing the funds, he says: “That didn’t happen with me at all. I was one of the only ministers that gave a final account every year and showed to parliament how much money every project got, and where it goes. And the progress table was provided to the planning ministry every three months for all the projects. Asked if other ministers were not providing sound financial accounts, he says: “Some of them.” “This environment encourages corruption,” Alderajy continues. “Corruption is not just with bribes and taking money. Mismanagement is corruption, lack of planning is corruption.” Alderajy grappled with other difficulties, too. In 2012, his motorcade was targeted by a bomb in Baghdad, reportedly killing one civilian and wounding four people, including two of the minister’s security detail. And in 2015, on being appointed by new prime minister Haider al-Abadi to another ministerial role in charge of industry and mining, a brawl broke out inside parliament. An MP who had objected to the way voting on the new minister was to be done – by show of hands rather than by electronic voting – was attacked and injured by 19 Sadrist MPs. Nothing ever goes smoothly in Iraqi politics.  Destroyed After his departure from the construction ministry, Alderajy looked on as his achievements were, in his view, taken apart.  “After me, they brought in a teacher to be construction minister,” he says. “He destroyed all these things I built, all the systems I put in place. He destroyed it because he doesn’t know what it all means – no experience, no knowledge.”  His replacement, Tariq Al-Khilkani, was also a Sadrist. In a new role at the ministry of industry and mining, Alderajy found himself once again restricted in what he could do. The wages of the ministry’s 230,000 employees continued to be paid, even though, Alderajy says, he needed no more than 60,000 staff, and had no budget to work with. Apart from the salaries, which were paid from the government’s central budget, he was afforded no budget for the industry arm of his ministry and was not allowed to export mining goods, he says, because of rules dating back to Paul Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority. That left him in charge of a crippled institution.  He tried to “self-finance” the ministry, as he puts it, by increasing production from the near 300 publicly owned factories under his authority. He says he also tried to get the 10,000 privately owned factories that were out of use working again. Jawad at Iraq Energy says the figure is closer to 30,000. But he found that there was little support for greater home-grown production. He says certain business leaders and politicians favoured importing goods over making them at home. He declines to name the individuals in question.  “I’ve discovered a lot of things when I was minister of industry, because a lot of people, countries, mafias don’t want Iraq to produce anything. They want Iraqis to be consumers only   - Mohammed Alderajy Alderajy says the resistance to his reforms was such that he received threats for halting, or trying to halt, the import of such goods as cement, fertilizers, chlorine, electricity generators and some military equipment. His apparently controversial view was that these could be made in Iraq, boosting the local economy.  “I’ve discovered a lot of things when I was minister of industry,” he says, “because a lot of people, countries, mafias don’t want Iraq to produce anything. They want Iraqis to be consumers only.”  He has written a book, ‘Babylon in Ash’, about his time at the ministry. It was released in London just two days before this interview and is as yet only available in Arabic. The forces that he says are trying to block Iraq’s reconstruction and development he calls “hidden states”. Without naming them directly, he says they include “some regional countries and some of the people inside Iraq who don’t want Iraq to be politically stabilized, or the people who are making money out of this. Because out of chaos, a lot of people make money easily.” Private banks This brings Alderajy back to the banking issues he had mentioned at the conference. In his view, there is a direct causal link between the country’s dependence on imports and what makes parts of the Iraqi banking sector corrupt. Alderajy says the central bank of Iraq provides the country’s private banks with a generous dinar/dollar exchange rate. Private banks, and only them, pay ID1,080 for each US dollar they receive from the central bank. The local market rate is ID1,250, he adds. Neither the central bank nor several of its senior managers responded to repeated requests for comment from Euromoney. This system was put in place to boost imports by giving banks easy access to dollars; the money is made available for the purchase of vital goods from abroad.  Alderajy takes issue with this on two counts. First, the central bank should not be undercutting local growth by favouring imports, when much of what is imported could be produced domestically: “The goods coming from outside Iraq are cheaper than making them in Iraq because of the dollar rates.”  Second, he says much of the foreign currency is not actually used to pay for imports. He says that many of the importing invoices that certain banks show the central bank to justify their purchase of dollars are fake. Instead of importing vital goods with that money, he claims banks are simply selling the dollars on to the local market, for a substantial profit. That hurts the average Iraqi, who is made to pay substantially more than they should for access to foreign currency. It also hurts the central bank’s reserves. In 2014, Alderajy says, the Iraqi central bank had $79 billion in reserves; now it has just $38 billion. That depletion is partly to do with an excessive number of civil servants – 5 million, he says – but he claims that the foreign exchange system also contributes to the drop.  “I’ve been raising this for the last two years,” he says. “In the cabinet; I raised it to parliament; raised it in the media. Nobody listened.” One explanation for the lack of interest may be the close relationship he says that banks have with the country’s politicians.  Asked which ones, he declines to reply. He says politicians do not put their names on the institutions’ shareholder registries because it is illegal for them to own these stakes, but that a lot of the country’s banks are controlled by politicians.  Solutions Alderajy resigned from government last year. He did so as part of a wave of resignations by Sadrists demanding that al-Abadi replace his cabinet, which they deemed corrupt and inefficient, with technocrats. On a personal level, Alderajy says the challenges had become too much and he felt that it was time to quit. He is now neither an MP nor a minister and says he is no longer close to al-Sadr: “I want to be independent. I don’t believe in any ideological parties anymore, because ideology doesn’t work with politics, doesn’t work with the economy. But despite having no formal role, he remains influential. At the London conference in July, organized by the Iraqi embassy in the UK, he was given pride of place to present his solutions for Iraq and to criticize what he thinks is holding the country back.  He set out his vision for greater partnership between the public and private sectors – the only solution in his view for the vast task of reconstruction that lies ahead. Paul Sydenham, a delegate working on a project that had been approved by Alderajy when he was in office, went to speak to the former minister during the conference. Alderajy reassured him that the project was indeed going ahead. Speaking to Euromoney afterwards, Sydenham says Alderajy retains great influence in Iraq.  Asked if Alderajy would be back in office one day, Sydenham says: “I wouldn’t be surprised.  “To be honest, Iraq wants to see progress, and he was doing a good job.” Alderajy’s own view on the matter: “If there is a good opportunity, yes… I’m waiting to see what happens next.”
 

[blueskyline]

http://m.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/17954......

Sun 08 October 2017| 19:11 PM

 

 

 

Iraq news 

1,616 ARREST WARRANTS ISSUED FOR EXTRADITION OF ACCUSED WHO FLED IRAQ 

 

 

Short Link

10/8/2017 12:17:07 PM

 

Public Prosecution Department announced on Sunday it had issued over 1,600 arrest warrants for accused felons who fled Iraq, adding that most of them are convicted in terrorism and corruption cases.    

In press statements, deputy head of Public Prosecution Department said it sent 1,616 arrest warrants to Arab countries’ police and the Interpol, including 360 arrest warrants for those convicted in financial and administrative corruption cases. 

Two hundred and forty arrest warrants were sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Legal Department, including 94 warrants related to corruption cases from 2003 up till now, he noted. 

He further stated only four accused were handed over to Iraq.

This is due to the fact that some of the accused have more than one nationality, making the countries they applied for asylum in and the ones they have their nationalities accept their residence, he added.  

In attempt to root the thriving phenomenon, the Iraqi government has led a push to hunt corrupt officials. 

Late in August, it was reported that Iraq’s anti-corruption court issued 26 jail sentences to high-profile Iraqi politicians. 

The sentences ranged from six months to 15 years.

[Wiljor]

And Maliki ??????? 

 

Thanks blueskyline, the corruption thing has got to be dealt with, and right away, a country can only bleed so much liquidity. And those who are caught, the funds must be returned to the state and a tough sentencing to follow. Let’s face it, in some countries they cut off your hand for stealing 

[nannab]

This is great news thanks blueskyline!   When does the in country warrant's start? Wiljor has started the list for them with 

Iraqi public enemy #1 Malarky.

 

[King Bean]

What's wrong with this picture?? Maliki's is there, staring them in the face, and they go after the smaller fish out of country. And so far only 4 scumbags have been handed over to authorities?? Go after their assets, go after the mansions in England and elsewhere. Cut off their ability to live and return that money to Iraq. Drag them into court and squeal or its the max 15 years, unless your actions resulted in death of citizens....then it's life or the gallows. They need to get tough. A couple publicly viewed hangings will get some tongues wagging. Kick @zz, take names.

                                                                                                                                

[yota691]

URGENT Prosecution: 1616 file recovered for those accused of corruption and terrorism outside Iraq

Date of release: 2017/10/10 13:09 • 43 times read

Public Prosecution: 1616 files recovered for those accused of corruption and terrorism outside Iraq ...

[yota691]

General Prosecution: A file for the recovery of Sudanese and dual nationality stands as an obstacle to the return of the accused (extended)

Release date: 2017/10/10 13:23 • 23 times read

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Public Prosecution Service (FCO) organized 1616 cases of recovery against accused fugitives outside Iraq, pointing out that most of these charges related to terrorism and corruption, pointing out that it is difficult to recover dual nationals because most of the countries of their nationality do not hand them over easily.

While the prosecution talked about the actions taken in connection with the case of the former Minister of Commerce, he explained the mechanism of organizing the files of the recovery and the parties that cooperate with it. 
"The number of information leaflets and arrest warrants sent to the Arab and International Police Directorate (Interpol) amounted to 1616, including 360 memos of defendants convicted of financial and administrative corruption cases," the deputy head of the prosecution said. 
He added that "the files sent to the Legal Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs numbered 240, ninety-four files relating to corruption cases since 2003 until now."
On the mechanism of organizing these files, he explained that "there is a division in the head of the prosecution has the task of organizing files to recover against fugitives outside Iraq," pointing out that "the bodies that cooperate with them in this area are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Interior and Integrity Commission." 
In response to a question regarding the role of the prosecution in the case of the accused Abdul Falah al-Sudani and others after a recent controversy, he said that "the prosecution is in the process of preparing files for the recovery of the accused Abdul Falah al-Sudani after he was arrested in Lebanon and another accused was in the ministry The defense was arrested in Jordan for the purpose of extraditing them to Iraq. "
On the number of accused recruits, the deputy chief prosecutor pointed out that "the defendants who were handed over to Iraq are only four," pointing out that "some of the accused have more than one nationality, which makes the countries that turn to them and hold their nationality clinging to them under any argument, For the consideration of some States for the crimes of waste of public funds and default of responsible for the crimes of international law. " 
"The majority of the crimes that we have organized against the perpetrators of terrorist acts are terrorist crimes against the internal and external security of the state and the crimes of financial and administrative corruption," the deputy chief prosecutor said. "The possibility of organizing a recovery file against any defendant who committed a crime, Imprisonment for two years or more ".
He stressed that "the prosecution's efforts continue with the competent authorities through the information bulletin, and once information is available about the presence of an accused in a particular country, we try to make contacts and efforts to approach the State through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and send everything related to the accused in order to hand over to Iraq." 
As for the mechanism of organizing the file of the recovery, for his part, says Attorney General Khalid Zahir Zair, "The file is organized after the recovery of all legal conditions are confirmed and deposited at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be sent by diplomatic means to the requested state of extradition and follow up these requests until the approval of the State concerned and the appearance Accused before the judiciary. " 
Zayer added that "
Zayer stressed the need to "record the statements of the complainant and witnesses by the competent judge after the adoption of the legal oath in the form of" (after the legal oath of incorporation), as well as the statement of the text of the legal article number and writing, "stressing that" must be sufficient information about the defendant to be recovered, The task of prosecuting him in addition to mentioning the maximum limit of the penalty allocated to the crime in the file. " 
Zair also pointed out that "the location of the accused must be determined as well as the organization of a summary of the file containing the time of the crime and the evidence obtained and the defendant's prescription at the time of the commission of the crime.
On the legal basis for the recovery of the fugitive accused between Judge Khalid Zayer, "the domestic legislation of articles 357 and 368 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was concerned with the extradition and extradition of criminals as well as treaties and agreements between States as well as international custom and the principle of reciprocity."

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Prosecution: 1616 file recovered for those accused of corruption and terrorism outside the country [expanded]

Release date: 2017/10/10 13:29 • 29 times read

[BAGHDAD] 
The Public Prosecution Service organized 1616 cases of recovery against two fugitives outside Iraq, pointing out that most of these charges related to terrorism and corruption. He pointed out that it is difficult to retrieve dual nationals because most countries of their nationality do not hand them over easily.

While the prosecution talked about the actions taken in connection with the case of the former Minister of Commerce, he explained the mechanism of organizing the files of the recovery and the parties that cooperate with it. 
"The number of information leaflets and arrest warrants sent to the Arab and International Police Directorate (Interpol) amounted to 1616, including 360 memos of defendants convicted of financial and administrative corruption cases," the deputy prosecutor said, . 
He added that "the files sent to the Legal Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs numbered 240, ninety-four files relating to corruption cases since 2003 until now."
On the mechanism of organizing these files, he explained that "there is a division in the head of the prosecution has the task of organizing files to recover against fugitives outside Iraq," pointing out that "the bodies that cooperate with them in this area are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Interior and Integrity Commission." 
In response to a question regarding the role of the prosecution in the case of the accused Abdul Falah al-Sudani and others after a recent controversy, he said that "the prosecution is in the process of preparing files for the recovery of the accused Abdul Falah al-Sudani after he was arrested in Lebanon and another accused was in the ministry The defense was arrested in Jordan for the purpose of extraditing them to Iraq. "
On the number of accused recruits, the deputy chief prosecutor pointed out that "the defendants who were handed over to Iraq are only four," pointing out that "some of the accused have more than one nationality, which makes the countries that turn to them and hold their nationality clinging to them under any argument, For the consideration of some States for the crimes of waste of public funds and default of responsible for the crimes of international law. " 
"The majority of the crimes that we have organized against the perpetrators of terrorist acts are terrorist crimes against the internal and external security of the state and the crimes of financial and administrative corruption," the deputy chief prosecutor said. "The possibility of organizing a recovery file against any defendant who committed a crime, Imprisonment for two years or more ".
He stressed that "the prosecution's efforts continue with the competent authorities through the information bulletin, and once information is available about the presence of an accused in a particular country, we try to make contacts and efforts to approach the State through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and send everything related to the accused in order to hand over to Iraq." 
As for the mechanism of organizing the file of the recovery, for his part, says Attorney General Khalid Zahir Zair, "The file is organized after the recovery of all legal conditions are confirmed and deposited at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be sent by diplomatic means to the requested state of extradition and follow up these requests until the approval of the State concerned and the appearance Accused before the judiciary. " 
Zayer added that "
Zayer stressed the need to "record the statements of the complainant and witnesses by the competent judge after the adoption of the legal oath in the form of" (after the legal oath of incorporation), as well as the statement of the text of the legal article number and writing, "stressing that" must be sufficient information about the defendant to be recovered, The task of prosecuting him in addition to mentioning the maximum limit of the penalty allocated to the crime in the file. " 
Zair also pointed out that "the location of the accused must be determined as well as the organization of a summary of the file containing the time of the crime and the evidence obtained and the defendant's prescription at the time of the commission of the crime.
On the legal basis for the recovery of the fugitive accused between Judge Khalid Zayer, "the domestic legislation of articles 357 and 368 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was concerned with the extradition and extradition of criminals as well as treaties and agreements between States as well as international custom and the principle of reciprocity."