Guest views are now limited to 12 pages. If you get an "Error" message, just sign in! If you need to create an account, click here.

Jump to content
  • CRYPTO REWARDS!

    Full endorsement on this opportunity - but it's limited, so get in while you can!

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


yota691
 Share

Recommended Posts

The former governor of Baghdad was sentenced to damage of public money by more than $ 12 million

12:11 - 23/01/2019

 
image
 
 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
The Criminal Court of the Integrity Commission in Baghdad issued a seven-year prison term in absentia for both the mayor of Baghdad and the director general of the former Baghdad Municipality Department of Parks, Of the (12,000,000) million US dollars with the funds and interests of the entity in which they were working. 
The Department, in a statement on the details of the case, in a statement received / Mawazine News / a copy of it, that "the convicted fugitives, they agreed and participate in damage to the funds and interests of the Secretariat of Baghdad during the contract on the project to develop the army channel," indicating that " According to the decision of the main committee to contract in the Secretariat without preparing the estimated costs of the project, and that the amount of damage amounted to (12,165,
The court, after reviewing the evidence obtained in this case represented by the legal representatives of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the Secretariat of Baghdad, which requested the complaint against the accused, in addition to the administrative investigation including their review and referral to the judiciary, and the report of the Office of Financial Supervision, , Which the Court found sufficient and convincing to convict in accordance with the provisions of Article 340 of the Penal Code in terms of Articles 47, 48 and 49 thereof. 
"The verdict included the issuance of an arrest warrant, a fundamental search of the accused and support for the seizure of their movable and immovable property, while the affected parties (the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the Secretariat of Baghdad) have the right to seek compensation before the civil courts. Ending 29 / a 43

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

image.php?token=a60e8d0e8444b4fc894185e3eb8c13cc&size=

 


 

24-01-2019 01:42 PM 
Number of readings: 52


Agency of the orbit -

Especially 

trying the current MP and Chairman of the Integrity Commission , former Talal Zobaie return to circle the media spotlight through the jamming of some political figures in various ways. 
Zobaie, who was self-confidence to obtain the post of speaker of parliament after promised by the former parliament speaker Osama Najafi. 
Al-Zobaie tried during the crisis of former parliament speaker Salim al-Jubouri to exploit himself by presenting himself as an alternative candidate for al-Jabouri, but his attempts failed. 
Al-Zobaie used one of the satellite channels (Al-Baghdadiya) to cut Salim al-Jubouri, by leaking documents concerning the work of parliament, especially the file of the reconstruction of the parliament building and buying the broadcasting equipment for the media department.
And continued to deal with the channel many times, for example was the file of the work of private banks and send files to that channel satellite, was contacted by these banks through an intermediary for the purpose of closing these files, and already get large amounts of large banks to close their files. 
If one of the banks' owners fails to appear personally on one of the programs of that channel, (Studio 9 / Anwar al-Hamdani), and the owner of the bank is known, who then has to submit to the desires of the Zubai, and end the file of violations of private private banks to administrative procedures and simple fines, Received by Zobaie. 
Al-Zuwaiy enjoyed the special relationship with the presenter of this program because they are members of one region, as well as paying certain sums of money to al-Zobaie to present this image in order to polish his image.
One of the most important files that Al-Zubairi worked on was the file of the ministers of the Maliki government. A number of ministers took the initiative in exchange for ignoring these files. The most prominent file was the file of the Ministry of Higher Education, which in one of its paragraphs included the purchase of Minister Ali Al-Adeeb, The account of the ministry and in amounts exceeding its real price (20) times, and from the vocabulary of the writer's purchase, a child's bed (Karuk), to his granddaughter at the expense of the ministry. 
The file of the Ministry of Education is another talk, has been closed for a sum of millions of dollars, especially the demolition of schools. 
Al-Zobaie is mainly involved in the blackmailing of his deputy, Talib al-Jaafari, who believes in his political cover, since Jaafari enjoys close ties with Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalai, through which he deals with corruption and file closures.
Al-Zobaie also had close ties that were not visible to Ezzat Shabandar, the godfather of big deals, which he supplied with files that al-Zobaie used to extort large merchants and politicians. 
Zobaie, who owned so many properties in the areas of Harthiya and the university district, as well as in the Jordanian capital of Amman, is now trying to return to the arena of political and financial blackmail, with his files from his work as chairman of the Integrity Committee in the previous parliament, but he has no political cover to play the same The former role, and even became a pariah of all, now files that owe him a large, which is in the presence of his former deputy Talib al-Jaafari, as well as former MP Hisham al-Moussawi and Taha Al-Defi.

  • Upvote 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Committees of the Integrity Committee Important 

WhatsApp-Image-2019-01-24-at-11.37.36-800x445.jpeg

The Integrity Committee discusses the amendment of the Commission's law and the illegal gain

 

 

 January 24, 2019

The Integrity Committee, headed by MP Hisham Al-Suhail and attended by its members on Wednesday 23/1/2019, hosted the Chairman of the Integrity Commission, Judge Izzat Tawfiq Jafar, and the Director General of the Legal Department of the Commission.

The amendment of the Integrity Commission Law and the Law on Illegal Profits was discussed during the hosting.

The Committee made a number of observations on the draft law, suggesting the formation of a joint committee to re-study and amend the Integrity Commission's law to reach a final agreement on its amendments and avoid future obstacles.

For his part, the Chairman of the Commission made his remarks regarding the draft laws and legal provisions relating to issues of corruption and the Penal Code.

House of Representatives 
Information Service 
23/1/2019

http://ar.parliament.iq/2019/01/24/لجنة-النزاهة-تناقش-تعديل-قانوني-الهيئ/

  • Upvote 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites


a parliamentary committee recommends the government by Iraqi officials named by a British report

A parliamentary committee recommends the government to Iraqi officials named by a British report

 Twilight News    

 47 minutes ago

 

The Parliamentary Services Committee on Thursday called on the federal government to withdraw Iraqi officials named in a British newspaper report accused of financial corruption.

"I call upon the heads of both houses of parliament and ministers to withdraw all those charged in the case published by the Financial Times on November 5, 2018 and until the completion of the investigative procedures and announcing them for the preservation of public money," a member of the parliamentary services committee Hussein al-Yousari told a news conference today. .

"On the issue of the dispute between France Telecom, Cork and Agility, which contained dangerous information that harms the Iraqi state and one of its institutions that are constitutionally linked to the House of Representatives, the media and communications authority, and charged its chief executive with dwelling for several years in one of the parties to the conflict. The measures taken by the Commission on Integrity and Public Prosecution despite the announcement of the Executive Chairman of the Information and Communications Authority to file a lawsuit against the newspaper and the company behind the allegations. "

But the leftist said that "so far has not announced the priorities of this issue, which some try to keep it secret and was not addressed by the media for fear of the body as a supervisor of the work of television channels."

"We demand accountability of the Department of Inspector General of the Information and Communications Authority for not conducting an investigation and informing the public opinion of its results because this scandal affects the direction of international companies to work in Iraq in the future."

The British Financial Times, the director-general of the Information and Communication Authority Ali al-Khuwaildi and other government officials, have been accused of hundreds of millions of dollars in corruption.

Al-Khuwaildi had vowed to file a lawsuit against the newspaper inside and outside Iraq, and Agility, which was the center of the charges against him by providing the paper with documents related to that matter.

 

Keywords: 

http://www.shafaaq.com/ar/Ar_NewsReader/4d90bfd7-9f33-4e1d-b58a-bf9bb2bc99c9

  • Upvote 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Parliamentary health calls the prosecution to investigate with Adela Hammoud and why!

04:41 - 24/01/2019

 
image
 
 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
A member of the health and environment committee, Jawad al-Moussawi, called on Thursday for public prosecutors to investigate former health minister Adela Hamoud on charges of wasting public money.

"He is calling on the public prosecutor to investigate former Health Minister Adela Hamoud for spending very large amounts of money amounting to about 44 billion dinars from the allocation of the Department of People's Medical Clinics in violation of the laws," Moussawi said in documents obtained by Mawazine News. 
He added that "these amounts were spent on topics such as the repair of the convoy of the minister and the purchase of military clothing for the members of the protection and fuel for the convoy of the minister and bonuses for non-employees (mostly citizens may be promoters of election campaigns) and Hospitality Minister's office," noting that " % Of the cash savings of the People's Clinics Department. "

132412019812d299f-575d-4519-8f37-3fe656b

1324120191d621980-137e-43d9-a54a-ba1b363

  • Upvote 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

8 hours ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

Pretty sure the Iraqi public is waiting in an extremely impatient way on EVERYTHING!!!!!!

 

longest political “ taffy Pull “ of all time.

Every single person in the GOI is corrupt.  If there are a few with clean hands, they have family members or friends that have stolen government funds.  They will recover a small portion of what probably amounts to TRILLIONS of dollars.  But just like the turds these articles refer to, they will be charged in absentia  and never be punished.

  • Thanks 1
  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 
BAGHDAD / 

Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi ordered the formation of a committee of judges, investigators and the Integrity Commission to investigate ministers involved in corruption and terrorist acts, a parliamentary source said on Friday. 

"Abdul Mahdi formed a team of judges and investigators, in cooperation with the Integrity Commission, to conduct an investigation with some ministers accused of corruption and involvement in terrorist acts," the source said in a statement.

He added that "parliamentary forces and with the support of the presidency of the parliament move to dismiss ministers accused of corruption and terrorism and belonging to the banned Baath party and Abdul Mahdi knows that." 

The source confirmed that "a minister in the government of Abdul Mahdi is included in the de-Baathification law, and the last leader of al-Qaeda, and another required integrity on corruption charges." 

It is noteworthy that the deputies and political forces have announced on several occasions the presence of ministers in the government of Abdul-Mahdi covered by the law of accountability and justice, and others involved in terrorist operations and members of terrorist organizations, as well as ministers accused of files of financial corruption.
  • Upvote 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

From the above Video, which the guy refer too this Article....

 

 

October 17, 2018
 

Is There Hope for Reform in Post-Election Iraq?

New Leaders Will Have Trouble Confronting the Corrupt Powers That Chose Them

 

At last, after months of deadlock following national elections in May, Iraq is on its way to a new government. The president, Barham Saleh, and prime minister, Adil Abdul Mahdi, are both veteran Iraqi politicians known as technocrats and reformers. The international community greeted their ascent with optimism, in the hope that these figures will drag the government out of the corruption, institutional incoherence, and alienation in which it has been mired since 2003.

But the international community has repeatedly invested too much hope in the ability of one or two individuals to change an entire failing system. Today’s narrative conjures up memories of a version from 2006, when Nouri al-Maliki replaced Ibrahim al-Jaafari as prime minister, and 2014, when Haider al-Abadi replaced Maliki. Both leaders subsequently failed to tackle the vested interests and structural constraints that hinder reform.

Even the most well-intentioned reformers in Iraq are hamstrung by the muhasasa taifa, a system of sectarian apportionment that has informally structured government formation since 2005. This system was set up to give representatives of the different communities in Iraq—Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd—a stake in government and hence a commitment to peace. However, the system circumvents the constitution and marginalizes the role of parliament by empowering party bosses to allocate the three top positions and the majority of cabinet posts based on sectarian and ethnic identity. This covert backroom apportionment, fuelled by unrestrained corruption and carried out in the name of ethnosectarian balancing, has delegitimized the post-2003 governance of Iraq and alienated the vast majority of the population from the ruling elite.

The way Saleh (elected by parliament) and Abdul Mahdi (designated by Saleh) gained power this fall strongly suggests that their appointments were the result of muhasasa dealings rather than the functioning of parliamentary democracy. If this turns out to be true, any efforts they make to reform Iraq’s corrupt government will be hampered by the debts they owe to the powers that put them in place.

BACKROOM DEALINGS

The Iraqi constitution of 2005 formally governs the selection of the Speaker, president, and prime minister following national elections. The parliament—called the Council of Representatives—elects a Speaker, two deputies, and the president. Within 15 days of his appointment, the president must call upon the largest bloc in parliament to form a government. This bloc then designates a prime minister, who in turn has 30 days to form a government.

But since 2005, this process has been structured according to the sectarian terms of the muhasasa rather than the constitution. The muhasasa empowers party bosses to negotiate among themselves and select a prime minister and president according to sectarian and ethnic identity, ensuring that the Speaker is Sunni, the prime minister is Shiite, and the president is Kurdish. These party bosses also divide up the ministerial posts and government resources that accompany them, often for their own material benefit.   

The newly appointed President Saleh was a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) for many years. Because of his frustrations with party infighting and corruption, he broke away and established his own party, the Coalition for Democracy and Justice, in 2017. That party performed terribly in the national elections, so Saleh rejoined the PUK, and in exchange the PUK supported his candidacy for the presidency.

Parliament handed Saleh a decisive victory in the second round of voting: he carried 220 out of 273 votes. For a moment, in an apparently hard-fought election, members appeared to have acted on their own initiative and ignored the demands of the party bosses. Saleh’s win looked like a victory for a charismatic, honest politician committed to reform. But the machinations that followed suggest a different scenario: party bosses conspired to elect Saleh because he did not have an independent support base and thus did not pose the least threat to their interests.   

By ignoring the constitutional procedure for choosing the prime minister, Saleh has further undermined the precarious role of the Council of Representatives.

Following his victory, instead of waiting for the largest bloc in parliament to select a candidate for prime minister, Saleh announced in less than two hours that he had chosen Abdul Mahdi. In fact, Abdul Mahdi had arrived at the parliament while presidential voting was still under way, in order to be in place for the announcement. This strongly suggests that Saleh’s victory and Abdul Mahdi’s appointment were the results of yet another muhasasa backroom deal orchestrated among party bosses. By ignoring the constitutional procedure for choosing the prime minister, Saleh has further undermined the precarious role of the Council of Representatives and raised questions about whether Iraq can legitimately call itself a parliamentary democracy.

THE COMPROMISE CANDIDATE

After the national election in May, Iraq’s parliament had arrived at an impasse. Three Shiite Islamist parties had gained the most seats in the Council of Representatives: Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon Coalition; Hadi al-Amiri’s Fatah, representing the militias; and the incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s Victory Alliance. After extended negotiations, two supercoalitions emerged: Islah, a combination of Sadr’s and Abadi’s factions, and al-Bina, led by Amiri. Both coalitions claimed they had enough seats in parliament to choose the next prime minister. The process ground to a halt.

The deadlock continued into early July, when mass protests erupted in Basra over government corruption and ineptitude. Basra has become a powerful symbol of the failure of the Iraqi state. With a population of four million, it is Iraq’s second-largest city and provides 80 percent of its oil revenue. But the government has failed to provide a sustainable sanitation system, even as the salinity of the Shatt al-Arab waterway has increased. As a result, 95,000 Basrawis were hospitalized over the summer with illnesses related to drinking contaminated water. 

Finally, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s leading Shiite clergyman, weighed in on September 10 to break the deadlock. He called for a change in leadership in response to public dissatisfaction with the ruling elite and announced that he would not support any candidate for prime minister who had previously been in power. Sistani’s backing is critically important for Iraqi Shiite politicians. His announcement, combined with Abadi’s failure to address the crisis in Basra, forced both Abadi and Amiri to drop out of the contest.

 

It was against this backdrop that the Shiite Islamist party bosses put Abdul Mahdi forward as a compromise candidate for prime minister. Once a central figure in Iraqi politics, Abdul Mahdi had withdrawn from his leadership roles and kept a low profile since 2016. His former party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, is weak and fractured. Without a support base, party, or militia of his own, Abdul Mahdi posed no threat to any of the party bosses and hence no threat to the muhasasa system, making him an ideal compromise candidate (similar to Saleh).

IS REFORM POSSIBLE?

The muhasasa system and the governing elite it has empowered have driven Iraq into an extended crisis. To the extent that Saleh and Abdul Mahdi may wish to be agents of reform, they face a daunting task. In past writings, Saleh has suggested creating an independent Iraq Investment Fund that could channel resources into new infrastructure projects independent of the muhasasa system. Such autonomous bodies are certainly needed, but in the past they have failed for lack of protection from corruption and party bosses.

To defend reform from those with vested interests in preventing it, Saleh and Abdul Mahdi will need to build a coalition of domestic and international partners. Given Sistani’s standing and commitment to reform, his support will be critical. The public is ready to be mobilized for reform: Iraqis have been demonstrating en masse against the muhasasa and corruption since 2015. Saleh and Abdul Mahdi could also seek to rebuild the momentum generated by the Kuwait International Conference for Reconstruction of Iraq in February 2018, when regional powers and the international community committed to help rebuild Iraq in order to stop the reconstitution of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS).

The technocratic plans that have engendered such optimism for this new government depend on a difficult balancing act. Saleh and Abdul Mahdi can create and defend the autonomy their plans require only by mobilizing the population, essentially countering the influence of the party bosses by building a popular movement for reform. Doing so will pose a direct and dangerous challenge to the very forces that recently delivered both the president and the prime minister to power.

  • Upvote 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Abd al-Mahdi orders investigating ministers' integrity

mahdi1

PM Adil Abd al-Mahdi

Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi ordered forming a committee consists of judges and investigators in cooperation with the Commission of Integrity to investigate some ministers who are involved in corruption cases and terrorist acts, a legislative source said.

The Parliament members and presidency are planning to dismiss the ministers proved to be involved in corruption and terrorism cases and being part of the banned Ba'ath party, the source said.

One of the ministers was addressed by the De-Ba'athification policy, another minister belongs to al-Qaeda, while the third is wanted by the Integrity Commission over corruption accusations.

The parliament’s service committee has called on the federal government to suspend Iraqi officials whose names were involved in financial corruption cases, according to a report by the Financial Times.

“I urge the cabinet and the parliament to suspend officials who were accused in the case mentioned by Financial Times in November, until all investigation is wrapped up," Hassan al-Yasari, member of the committee, said in a press conference, calling for announcing the results to the public.

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/35589/Abd-al-Mahdi-orders-investigating-ministers-integrity

  • Thanks 2
  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Editorial date: 2019/1/26 9:01 • 284 times read
Sumo issues an important clarification of controversial oil contracts
The Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) announced on Saturday its response to all queries addressed to the company by the chairman and members of the oil and energy parliamentary committee on the profit sharing contracts and the mechanism of the oil marketing company and the execution of contracts in a detailed and clear manner.
The company said in a press statement today that after the invitation of hosting by the Chairman of the Committee on Oil and Energy Uday Awad, the Director General of the Oil Marketing Company and the advanced cadre accompanying him last Tuesday in the House of Representatives, the Committee on Oil and Energy to answer all the queries raised by MP Uday Awad and members of the Committee about sharing contracts profits and to clarify the work of the oil marketing company in terms of contracting, pricing and execution of contracts in a detailed and clear mechanism and thereby contributing to the removal of any ambiguity may be present on these issues. " 
He said," the House of Representatives listened to a detailed explanation and appreciated the professional and scientific management of the company and its staff Almottag M in the answer to all their questions and observations , taking valuable service provided to the public interest. " 
It is clear that, with respect to documents and information provided by the MP Uday Awad, has been found and the following statement on the most important:
1- The MP highlighted a document which is supposed to be a contract for the establishment of a joint company with the Chinese company Zhenhua. The contract was effective for 50 years. The contract period is only five years and it is unsigned and not even windowable. 
2- The confusion surrounding the document of calculating the price of a shipment of Basrah Light crude oil destined for the European market has been removed and the price differentials and their positive causations that comply with the international custom in all the contracts of marketing and trading of crude oil in the world related to pricing are marked with different terms of reference Market fundamentals variables.
3 - Representatives were briefed on a number of advanced programs and specialized systems adopted by the Oil Marketing Company in determining the profitability of the global refineries of Iraqi crude oil and others as well as tracking the movement of tankers from the loading sites to dump sites to ensure the safety of the implementation of companies to contractual terms and delivery of oil to the country where The refineries of these companies exist. 
4. Several technical details related to the qualitative and quantitative control of the loading ports and the marketing knowledge have been clarified in this regard, with the emphasis that this is the responsibility of the oil companies responsible for the management of production and loading from the ports.
5 - It was explained to the deputies that mixing fuel oil with crude oil source is not the responsibility or duties of the oil marketing company, but can be inquired about the reasons and validity of studies on them from the Ministry of Oil and the Ministry attributed the liquidation companies and the technical department on the subject, and in this regard it was stressed that The duty of the oil marketing company is to export the quantities available in the port and not before that.
6 - Representative Uday Awad prepared a report from the Internal Control Department recommends selling the Qayara crude oil as black oil to raise its price. It was explained in a scientific and professional manner that what we were assigned by the Ministry of Oil is the sale of the quantities produced from Qayara crude oil available for export. The internal control in the ministry is inaccurate and contains the basis of technical calculation is wrong and is not based on any marketing grounds, including that the global market is aware of the fact that this product crude oil Qayara and not fuel oil and even if the market accepted the proposed name as a product of fuel oil and not as crude oil remains the reality of price-causing specifications The low will not Non.
Somo expressed surprise at the remarks made by MP Uday Awad, who in no way reflects the reality of the hosting. The deputies can return to the audio recording of the hosting session to investigate the fact that all the answers were adequate and adequate and that many MPs expressed their appreciation and gratitude for the nature of accurate answers and explanation. The professional chapter, which was objective
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Editorial date: 2019/1/26 9:01  312 times read
Sumo issues an important clarification of controversial oil contracts
The Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) announced on Saturday its response to all queries addressed to the company by the chairman and members of the oil and energy parliamentary committee on the profit sharing contracts and the mechanism of the oil marketing company and the execution of contracts in a detailed and clear manner.
The company said in a press statement today that after the invitation of hosting by the Chairman of the Committee on Oil and Energy Uday Awad, the Director General of the Oil Marketing Company and the advanced cadre accompanying him last Tuesday in the House of Representatives, the Committee on Oil and Energy to answer all the queries raised by MP Uday Awad and members of the Committee about sharing contracts profits and to clarify the work of the oil marketing company in terms of contracting, pricing and execution of contracts in a detailed and clear mechanism and thereby contributing to the removal of any ambiguity may be present on these issues. " 
He said," the House of Representatives listened to a detailed explanation and appreciated the professional and scientific management of the company and its staff Almottag M in the answer to all their questions and observations , taking valuable service provided to the public interest. " 
It is clear that, with respect to documents and information provided by the MP Uday Awad, has been found and the following statement on the most important:
1- The MP highlighted a document which is supposed to be a contract for the establishment of a joint company with the Chinese company Zhenhua. The contract was effective for 50 years. The contract period is only five years and it is unsigned and not even windowable. 
2- The confusion surrounding the document of calculating the price of a shipment of Basrah Light crude oil destined for the European market has been removed and the price differentials and their positive causations that comply with the international custom in all the contracts of marketing and trading of crude oil in the world related to pricing are marked with different terms of reference Market fundamentals variables.
3 - Representatives were briefed on a number of advanced programs and specialized systems adopted by the Oil Marketing Company in determining the profitability of the global refineries of Iraqi crude oil and others as well as tracking the movement of tankers from the loading sites to dump sites to ensure the safety of the implementation of companies to contractual terms and delivery of oil to the country where The refineries of these companies exist. 
4. Several technical details related to the qualitative and quantitative control of the loading ports and the marketing knowledge have been clarified in this regard, with the emphasis that this is the responsibility of the oil companies responsible for the management of production and loading from the ports.
5 - It was explained to the deputies that mixing fuel oil with crude oil source is not the responsibility or duties of the oil marketing company, but can be inquired about the reasons and validity of studies on them from the Ministry of Oil and the Ministry attributed the liquidation companies and the technical department on the subject, and in this regard it was stressed that The duty of the oil marketing company is to export the quantities available in the port and not before that.
6 - Representative Uday Awad prepared a report from the Internal Control Department recommends selling the Qayara crude oil as black oil to raise its price. It was explained in a scientific and professional manner that what we were assigned by the Ministry of Oil is the sale of the quantities produced from Qayara crude oil available for export. The internal control in the ministry is inaccurate and contains the basis of technical calculation is wrong and is not based on any marketing grounds, including that the global market is aware of the fact that this product crude oil Qayara and not fuel oil and even if the market accepted the proposed name as a product of fuel oil and not as crude oil remains the reality of price-causing specifications The low will not Non.
Somo expressed surprise at the remarks made by MP Uday Awad, who in no way reflects the reality of the hosting. The deputies can return to the audio recording of the hosting session to investigate the fact that all the answers were adequate and adequate and that many MPs expressed their appreciation and gratitude for the nature of accurate answers and explanation. The professional chapter, which was objective
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • yota691 changed the title to Integrity intends to announce the results of investigations in 5 files, including oil and investment
 
12592.jpg
The Integrity Commission logo
  

 money and business


Economy News Baghdad

The Commission on Integrity will announce in March the results of the investigation of investment files, oil, prisons and projects in all governorates, in addition to the file of forging real estate, stressing that the fight against corruption in the country requires a political decision.

"The Commission and the regulatory body have priorities in the work, but the fruit of the anti-corruption measures is slow, especially the criminal cases that the court investigates under the supervision of the court or even the news cases," said Ezzat Tawfiq Jafar, Delayed procedures to link them with specific answers and technical and investigative reports, which would take time to complete. "

He added that "the Commission, despite this, will be issued during the month of March next report for the first quarter of this year, and will contain the results achieved, whether positive or negative files of investment and oil and prisons and projects lagging across the provinces, in addition to the file of fraud over the real estate," noting that "the Commission will be It has an indication of the safety of the procedures established or not, or it is correct through the data that will result in this report, whether negative or positive.

Jafar pointed out that "the Commission in the field of combating corruption, are on the right track and have procedures to reduce it, but the size of the problem, corruption and challenge, very large, and when comparing the size of the problem with the actions taken, are almost unobtrusive in the street, "The anti-corruption project is a political, economic, cultural, social, reform, administrative and organizational decision."

"Then, according to priorities, comes the role of regulatory bodies, such as the body and the Office of Financial Control, if the infrastructure of the legal system and institutional, legislative, regulatory, reform and administrative work is valid, then any person or official or body to account for any amount of money Iraq may come out Of the treasury, but the environment is currently not ready to achieve this subject. "

The head of the Integrity Commission said that Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi Gad and sincere in what he says and wants to combat corruption, adding that "his department in addition to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Judicial Council are serious about bypassing proactive and bold steps to prevent and combat corruption, but the problem itself requires change and revolution , On the other hand, there are those who face and try to put obstacles in the way, "stressing that" the political decision, is the first steps and the basis of combating corruption in the country. "


Views 83   Date Added 01/27/2019

 
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Abdul-Mahdi: Fighting corruption is almost half of the state's work

07:04 - 26/01/2019

 
image
 
 

 

Baghdad - Mawazine News 

Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said on Saturday that the fight against corruption is almost half of the state's work. 
The Prime Minister's Office received / Mawazin News / a copy of that "Abdul-Mahdi presided over the meeting of the Supreme Council to combat corruption at its headquarters in the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court 
Abdul Mahdi, according to the statement," We must move to the country to the ranks did not previously reported in this area and unify the efforts of oversight and accountability and inspectors and organization work to be more effective. " 
 He added , " during the meeting , the most important issues and files, search the inspectors link to the Council and the methods of evaluation and receipt of reports, and the formation of a soft system to receive complaints and Alakhbarat mechanism, along with organizational and administrative orders to the work of the Council ".anthy 29 / m

  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 
Sunday 27 January
 
   
 
Search Bigger
 
 

The Iraqi newspaper reported on Sunday that Iraqi officials have seen documented records of the looting of oil by Turkish companies, indicating that the Turkish government has been asked to stop immediately. 

"Iraqi officials have seen documented records showing the looting of Turkish companies in Iraq, " Okaz newspaper quoted a political source as saying 

The source, who asked not to be named, said that "was addressed to the Turkish government and its demand to stop immediately looting and the deportation of Turkish companies operating in the field of oil from Iraqi fields."

 

 


The coalition of state law accused earlier, the Turkish government collusion with the Kurdistan region of "theft and smuggling" of oil abroad.

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 
Sunday 27 January
 
   
 
Search Bigger
 
 

Alsumaria News / Baghdad
announced the Inspector General for the Department of Justice Karim Gazan, Sunday, for a ruling against an employee in one of the real estate registration departments severe imprisonment for a period of two years so as to cause a large amount regardless of the loan to support based on a false drug use as collateral for that loan. 

Al-Ghazzi said in a statement received by Alsumaria News, a copy of it that "the Court of Misdemeanors competent in issues of integrity, money laundering and economic crime sentenced to the presence of the convicted (MSM) and works as a surveyor," noting that "he revealed inaccurate and non-standard and the value of the property with the Disclosure Committee In an exaggerated amount on the property used as collateral for the disbursement of a loan from the Agricultural Bank of (1.500.000.000 dinars) billion and five hundred million dinars.

 

 


He added that "the amount was based on the bond of a property whose contents were misrepresented for the purpose of raising its value and use to ensure that the loan is covered." He added that "the ruling also included giving the right to complainant / public right in addition to his job to review civil courts to claim compensation.

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

126731.jpg?width=750&&height=375

 
2019/01/26 22:34
  • Number of readings 2173
  • Section: Iraq
  •  

12 billion dollars lost in the era of Bremer .. Is the government of Washington to recover the amount?

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A coalition of Sadrists backed by Sadr's leader Moqtada al-Sadr threatened Saturday to recover $ 12 billion that was stolen by former US administrator Paul Bremer after 2003, the Guardian newspaper reported.

"The House of Representatives will verify from the British newspaper, information about Bremer's involvement in the theft and loss of 12 billion dollars of Iraq's money," said MP Raad al-Maksousi in a press statement.

He added that "after confirmation of this information will be Iraq to move, for the purpose of accounting and recovery of this money by Bremer or the United States of America, no one above the Iraqi law, and there are diplomatic and political ways to recover Iraq's money from Bremer or others, but first must verify the information".

The British newspaper reported in a report published a few days ago that the United States transferred about $ 12 billion in the form of packages worth $ 100 US to Iraq, and then distributed without control of the spending.

She added that a staggering amount of the largest cash transfer in the history of the US Federal Reserve has been identified, according to an investigation by the US Congressional Committee.

According to sources familiar with the money and legal experts, the government of Iraq must verify the authenticity of the newspaper and if this is true, Washington should be asked to recover the amount.

 

Follow the obelisk

http://almasalah.com/ar/news/162290/12-مليار-دولار-ضائعة-في-حقبة-بريمر-هل-تفاتح-الحكومة-واشنطن-باسترداد-المبلغ

 

 
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Investigation Into Missing Iraqi Cash Ended in Lebanon Bunker

 
Stuart W. Bowen Jr., left, a special inspector general who examined corruption and waste in Iraq.CreditChristoph Bangert for The New York Times
CASH-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=we
 
 
ImageCASH-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=we
Stuart W. Bowen Jr., left, a special inspector general who examined corruption and waste in Iraq.CreditCreditChristoph Bangert for The New York Times
  • Oct. 12, 2014
  •  

WASHINGTON — Not long after American forces defeated the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein in 2003, caravans of trucks began to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on a regular basis, unloading an unusual cargo — pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills. The cash, withdrawn from Iraqi government accounts held in the United States, was loaded onto Air Force C-17 transport planes bound for Baghdad, where the Bush administration hoped it would provide a quick financial infusion for Iraq’s new government and the country’s battered economy.

Over the next year and a half, $12 billion to $14 billion was sent to Iraq in the airlift, and an additional $5 billion was sent by electronic transfer. Exactly what happened to that money after it arrived in Baghdad became one of the many unanswered questions from the chaotic days of the American occupation, when billions were flowing into the country from the United States and corruption was rampant.

Finding the answer became first the job and then the obsession of Stuart W. Bowen Jr., a friend from Texas of President George W. Bush who in 2004 was appointed to serve as a special inspector general to investigate corruption and waste in Iraq. Before his office was finally shut down last year, Mr. Bowen believed he might have succeeded — but only partly — in that mission.

Much of the money was probably used by the Iraqi government in some way, he concluded. But for years Mr. Bowen could not account for billions more until his investigators finally had a breakthrough, discovering that $1.2 billion to $1.6 billion had been stolen and moved to a bunker in rural Lebanon for safe keeping. “I don’t know how the money got to Lebanon,” Mr. Bowen said. “If I knew that, we would have made more progress on the case.”

 
 

Mr. Bowen kept the discovery and his investigation of the cash-filled bunker in Lebanon, which his office code-named Brick Tracker, secret. He has never publicly discussed it until now, and his frustration that neither he nor his investigators can fully account for the missing money was evident in a series of interviews. “Billions of dollars have been taken out of Iraq over the last 10 years illegally,” he said. “In this investigation, we thought we were on the track for some of that lost money. It’s disappointing to me personally that we were unable to close this case, for reasons beyond our control.”

He is equally frustrated that the Bush administration, apart from his office, never investigated reports that huge amounts of money had disappeared, and that after his investigators found out about the bunker, the Obama administration did not pursue that lead, either. Mr. Bowen said his investigators briefed the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. on what they found. But Mr. Bowen added that he believed one reason American officials had not gone after it was “because it was Iraqi money stolen by Iraqis.”

 

Spokesmen for the F.B.I. and C.I.A. declined to comment for this article.

The Iraqi government has also not tried to retrieve the money, and has kept information about the Lebanese bunker secret. Mr. Bowen said that he talked to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki about the missing money and his discovery of the bunker and that Mr. Maliki never took any action, while expressing anger at the way the United States had handled the airlifted cash.

The money so assiduously carried to Iraq from a vast facility in New Jersey operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York came from the Development Fund of Iraq, which was created by a United Nations resolution in May 2003 to hold Iraqi oil revenue. The fund was to be used in Iraq’s reconstruction, and the United Nations resolution called for the creation of a monitoring board to make sure the United States-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which governed Iraq in 2003 and the first half of 2004 and ordered the cash flights, used the money properly for the benefit of the Iraqi people.

For the C.P.A., an advantage of using the cash from the Development Fund instead of money appropriated by Congress for Iraq was that there were not a lot of rules governing its use, and no federal regulations or congressional oversight of what happened to it. It was Iraqi money, not anything from American taxpayers.

 

In an interview, Paul Bremer, who was the head of the C.P.A., defended the agency’s handling of the funds, and said the money was badly needed to keep Iraqi government ministries in operation. In particular, he defended the decision to accelerate the cash flights in June 2004, just before the provisional authority closed and was replaced by an interim Iraqi government. In the last two weeks of June, the C.P.A. ordered $4 billion to $5 billion in cash to be flown to Baghdad from New York in a rapid-fire series of last-minute flights.

The Iraqi government “was broke at that point,” Mr. Bremer said. “Civil servants had not been paid for about three months. We had to get funds there right away.” He said that there was a budget process in Baghdad that determined how much cash was requested from the Federal Reserve.

“The issue is what happened to the money once it was distributed through the minister of finance,” he said. “We had a very clear record of funds going to the Iraqi system.”

Mr. Bowen was dismissive of Mr. Bremer’s defense of the C.P.A. Accounting for the funds was so lax, he said, that there were few credible records of how it was spent. “Our auditors interviewed numerous senior advisers of the C.P.A., and we learned from them that the controls on the Development Fund of Iraq money were inadequate,” Mr. Bowen said. “We didn’t make this up; we learned this from C.P.A. staff.”

Former Treasury Department officials also questioned the need for the flights. Treasury had already sent $1.7 billion in cash from Iraqi government accounts in the United States to Baghdad in the first weeks after the invasion, and then had developed a new Iraqi currency that was introduced that October. They say the new currency ended the need for further cash infusions from the United States.

“We did not know that Bremer was flying in all that cash,” said Ged Smith, who was the head of the Treasury Department team that worked on Iraq’s financial reconstruction after the invasion. “I can’t see a reason for it.”

Mr. Bowen said that Brick Tracker, his office’s most sensitive investigation, began in 2010 when Wael el-Zein, a Lebanese- American on his staff, received a tip about stolen money hidden in Lebanon. An informant told him about the bunker, which in addition to the cash, was believed to also have held approximately $200 million in gold belonging to the Iraqi government.

 

But by this time, official Washington had long since forgotten about the flights from Andrews. The C.I.A. expressed little interest in pursuing the matter, and the F.B.I. said it lacked jurisdiction, Mr. Bowen recalled. And when Mr. Bowen and his staff tried to conduct an investigation of the missing cash in Lebanon, they also met with resistance from the United States Embassy in Beirut.

Mr. Bowen was not allowed to travel to Lebanon on official business. Two of his investigators who did travel to Lebanon were denied permission from the embassy to see the bunker themselves because it was too dangerous. When Mr. Bowen’s staff members met in Beirut with Lebanon’s prosecutor general, Said Mirza, he initially agreed to cooperate on an investigation, but later decided against it.

The office of the special inspector general for Iraq closed in 2013, and Mr. Bowen is now working in the private sector. Mr. Bowen thinks at least some of the money has been moved, and said it is impossible to say whether any of it is still in the bunker. He says he is still frustrated by the lack of cooperation he got from his own government in his efforts to pursue the missing cash. “We struggled to gain timely support from the interagency as we pursued this case,” Mr. Bowen said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/world/investigation-into-missing-iraqi-cash-ended-in-lebanon-bunker.html

  • Thanks 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

The United States has transferred around US$12 billion, in the form of packages of shrink-wrapped $100 bills to Iraq and distributed them without controlling the expenditure, The Guardian reported.

“The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee,” the report said.

“In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tons, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover,” it added.

Details of the shipments, according to the report,  “have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction.”

The report quoted the committee chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the US invasion to Iraq, said the way the cash had been handled was ‘mind-boggling’.

"The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?,” he wondered.

The memorandum clarified the details of the unofficial manner in which the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority, run by Paul Bremer, disbursed the money, which came from the sales of the Iraqi oil, surplus funds from the UN oil-for-food programme and seized Iraqi assets.

“Cash payments were made from the back of a pickup truck, and cash was stored in unguarded sacks in Iraqi ministry offices. One official was given $6.75m in cash, and was ordered to spend it in one week before the interim Iraqi government took control of Iraqi funds,” it said.

"Many of the funds appear to have been lost to corruption and waste ... thousands of 'ghost employees' were receiving pay cheques from Iraqi ministries under the CPA's control. Some of the funds could have enriched both criminals and insurgents fighting the United States,” the memorandum concluded.

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/35647/Bremer-accused-of-wasting-US-12-bln-from-Iraqi-assets-Guardian

  • Thanks 2
  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • yota691 changed the title to Supreme Judicial Council calls for lifting the immunity of deputies accused of corruption
  • Adam Montana locked this topic
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.