Kurdish authorities seize $250 mln belonging to Kurdistan oil minister’s wife: report

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Kurdish authorities seize $250 mln belonging to Kurdistan oil minister’s wife: report Posted on January 20, 2016by Editorial Staff in Corruption, Oil & Gas

Iraqi Kurdistan oil minister Ashti Hawrami’s wife Chra (Chrakhan) Rafiq. Photo: Rudaw

HEWLÊR-Erbil, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Kurdish authorities reportedly have seized some $250 million belonging to an oil “businesswoman” and wife of Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s current minister of Natural Resources Ashti Hawrami, the Wusha newspaper reported Wednesday.

The Wusha report stated the Kurdistan Presidency formed an investigative committee to look into the dealings of Chra Rafiq, wife of Minister Ashti Hawrami, and that the money is now in a bank in the Kurdistan Region.

The unknown businesswomen Rafiq, a dual Iraqi and German citizen, has not been officially accused of having committed any crime although she reportedly left the Kurdistan Region for Turkey upon the announcement of an impending investigation.

 

Wusha also reported that “some officials” attempted to intervene in the matter but that the investigative committee blocked their efforts.

NRT reached out to Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) members Dilshad Shaaban and Salih Bashar from the Parliament’s Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for confirmation of the seizure. Both did not answer repeated calls.

In a post to his Facebook page, Change Movement (Gorran) MP and energy committee member Ali Hama Salih said he hoped for similar investigations in the future to fight corruption in the region.

Kurdistan oil minister Ashti Hawrami routinely accused of corruption by observers, Kurdish officials and local media.

Many Kurdish politicians and Observers believe that many of the oil industry projects in Iraqi Kurdistan are conducted in a non-transparent way. Some have even described them as secretive.

 

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[italiancat]

Busted!!! Cold Busted!!! Off with her head!!!!

[Gypsygirl11]

250 mil.. Too bad her money is there dishonestly.  Oh what that must feel like to have It all TAKEN AWAY... Easy come, easy go.

 

Corruption is a way of life for them. Its going to take years just to make a dent in it. Sigh  -  I know, I know, corruption is everywhere.

[gymrat76541]

Meanwhile the citizens are starving in the streets! WOW

 

[Laid Back]

Rampant corruption.!!

" Where did you get this "

[dwhite1971]

Sounds like Billary

[gymrat76541]

I saw on the news that 100 of the richest Americans hold more wealth than the rest of all the people in America.

 

Looks like Iraq is aiming to be like us too! LOL

[new york kevin]

They have 250 million pieces of evidence on corruption  on Maliki; and 250 million reasons to arrest Iraqi Kurdistan oil minister Ashti Hawrami’s wife Chra (Chrakhan) Rafiq. What else do the Iraqi Kurds and Iraq in general need to arrest someone when they have enough evidence to do so?

 

[yota691]

Kurdistan government issued a clarification about "Hawrami wife reserve funds"

Wednesday 20-01-2016 | 8:22:47

 

 

 

 

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Twilight News / denied the Kurdistan Regional Government, on Wednesday, its confiscation of the amount of 276 billion dinars for the merchant on behalf of چravan Rafiq Omar alleged wife to the Minister of Natural Resources drastically.

 

And it came in an urgent statement to the provincial government and seen by Twilight News, that some websites and channels and media ran a story that the results of the special commission of inquiry formed by the provincial president of Massoud Barzani concluded confiscation of the amount of 276 billion dinars belonging to a merchant in the field of oil called چravan Rafiq Omar, claiming it was the wife of the Minister Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government drastically and accused of trading oil illegally.

 

The statement noted that this news is baseless and completely fabricated fully, denying for such a thing in any way.

 

The statement said that there is no investigative committee formed by the region's president to carry out such a procedure, stressing that this lady is not for Hawrami wife and the charges against her baseless and fabricated.

 

He said the government statement said that such news is only part of the "black campaign" of the political goals against the Kurdistan Regional Government, which always include fabrication and dissemination of news baseless.

[jeepguy]

it was in dinars  ?   well  heck  they  are  just  playing the speculation  game  !     

[calkid11]

Thank you