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Documents: Parliamentary Integrity calls for a travel ban for tax authority managers due to “grand theft” Time: 06/10/2022 20:39:25 Reading: 4,706 times {Political: Al Furat News} A member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee Ahmed Taha Al-Rubaie confirmed today, Thursday, that there is a theft in the revenues of the trust accounts belonging to the general tax in Al-Rafidain Bank exceeding (800) million dollars, stressing at the same time that “no authority or entity can Covering up or denying this theft in favor of the thieves of public money. Al-Rubaie said in a statement that {Euphrates News} received a copy of it, “After we addressed the Ministry of Finance to provide us with the results of the investigative committees on the file of the loss of the revenues of the trust accounts belonging to the general tax in the Rafidain Bank, which is estimated at more than a trillion Iraqi dinars, and the real numbers of the amounts and suspects who They took the money illegally. The ministry replied that it had formed an investigation committee to conduct the administrative investigation into the matter, and the investigation committee recommended precautionary recommendations regarding what they were changed in the investigation, because the loss of these huge sums from the account of the General Tax Authority was during the period of their administration and under their direct responsibility and powers. He added that "the ministry is awaiting the judicial investigation, as the case is being considered before the judiciary, which has a general mandate to protect public money," noting that "the answers of the Ministry of Finance confirm the existence of this theft and no party or authority can cover it up or even deny it." Al-Rubaie called on government and regulatory agencies to “prevent the travel of some managers and senior cadres in the Tax Authority who have been changed until the end of the administrative and judicial investigation, and also called on the Federal Integrity Commission to take the necessary action and as quickly as possible to complete the required investigations and refer the files to the integrity judge.” The Minister of Finance, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Agency, had revealed that there was a theft of money in the Ministry of Finance, with no less than 800 million dollars in a specific account in the Rafidain Bank, which was withdrawn in violation of the law. In the same regard, Faleh Al-Sari, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee and head of the National State Forces Alliance bloc, called on the Ministry of Finance to reveal the personalities involved in the loss of more than 800 million dollars.
