Iraqi Integrity: Control of corruption cases exceeding 400 billion dinars in November

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Rampant Corruption In The World’s Last Oil Frontier

By Simon Watkins - Aug 20, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT

It seems that as fast as any positive news appears about the massive and under-developed oil and gas resourcesof the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, more negative manifestations of its endemic corruption quickly follow. OilPrice.com can exclusively reveal that a lawsuit has been brought against the government of Kurdistan (the KRG) – and also personally against the former Minister of Natural Resources, Abdullah Abdul Rahman Abdullah (commonly known as Ashti Hawrami) - alleging a range of illegal practices.

This lawsuit was filed on 14 August at the U.K. Royal Courts of Justice (specifically, The High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Commercial Court) by the Dynasty Company for Oil & Gas Trading Limited (Dynasty Petroleum). It alleges, among others: ‘Conspiracy to injure Dynasty by unlawful means’, ‘Unlawful interference’, ‘Unlawful intimidation’, and ‘Inducement to breach contract’.

Although the case unusually seeks to indict Hawrami personally, OilPrice.com understands from a separate anonymous source that the allegations made by Dynasty Petroleum are entirely in line with the standard modus operandi Hawrami has employed since he first became the Minister of Natural Resources in 2006. Dynasty Petroleum’s problems began when it refused to pay any illegal payments.

Such practices of seeking to secure such illegal payments, OilPrice.com understands, occurred with the full knowledge of the ruling political parties. Indeed, following the appointment of Masrour Barzani on 10 July as prime minister of the KRG - his cousin, Nechirvan is president, and the former president (and father of Masrour) Masoud Barzani remains the driving power behind the throne – Hawrami was appointed as the top official for energy affairs in the KRI, being widely regarded as the architect of the region’s entire oil and gas sector.

The Dynasty claim itself centres on alleged illegal practices in what should have been a run-of-the-mill piece of administrative business in a country looking to build-out its key oil and gas sector, as the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) supposedly is. Around a year or so ago, Dynasty Petroleum – a Sulaymaniyah-based company established by the Kurdish owners of two Kurdish conglomerates (South Kurdistan Group, and Tigris Holding) and already active in oil and gas trading and refining - began negotiations with Spanish super-major Repsol to acquire some of its KRI assets. Related: China’s Ultimate Play For Global Oil Market Control

Specifically, Dynasty Petroleum agreed to purchase the entire outstanding share capital of Talisman (Block K39) B.V. and Talisman (Block K44) B.V. through a standard sales and purchase agreement (SPA). These entities are, respectively, the contractor entity and operators of the production sharing contracts (PSCs) of the Topkhana oil and gas site (Block K39) and the Kurdamir oil and gas site (Block K44).

According to various independent studies, the Topkhana and Kurdamir sites together have estimated contingent (2C) initially in place resources of 2.6 billion barrels of light, low sulphur oil and a condensate rich gas cap of 7.2 trillion cubic feet of low CO2 and H2S gas. Significant further upside potential exists within the shallower Miocene, deeper Eocene, Cretaceous and Oligocene footwall formations, in which well tests have indicated additional liquid resources. Once the planned development phases have been completed, expectations from the previous and would-be developers are that the combined crude oil and condensate production from Topkhana and Kurdamir will be at least 25,000 barrels per day and up to 600 million standard cubic feet per day of gas as well. 

“After extensive due diligence had been done, and all of the legal aspects agreed, both the purchaser [Dynasty Petroleum] and the seller [Repsol] were absolutely happy to proceed with this deal, which involved many millions of dollars in payment being agreed from purchaser to seller, and all it required was for the relevant administrative powers in the KRG to sign off a standard change of control consent transaction form but it was at this point that the trouble started,” an anonymous source told OilPrice.com last week. “There should have been no problems at all, in theory, as, according to the KRG’s PSC’s Article 39.7 a change of control consent cannot unreasonably be withheld or delayed by the government,” he added.

It is in the tiny detail at the end of ‘The Change of Control’ clause 39.7 that the devil lurks, as the last line reads: “...request the consent of Government, which consent shall not be unreasonably delayed or withheld.” In this context, a source close to the KRG’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) told OilPrice.com, what factors and/or length of time a straight-up businessman might think is unreasonable is not what an MNR official might think is unreasonable if he is not being offered either cash or a free share in the project - or both, depending on how senior he is. “Once he gets what’s he wants then the official will agree that the previous objection was unreasonable and that the length of delay was unreasonable and now everything’s fine and can go ahead,” the MNR source underlined.

According to the MNR source, in the case of Dynasty Petroleum it was made extremely clear that for the consent to the change of control to be granted by the KRG, a number of payments would have to be made. “Hawrami’s usual cut is between 20 to 30 per cent of the overall value of the deal up front, with extra payments along the way as various milestones on production are passed, and lesser payments were to be made to other senior figures in the administration,” an anonymous source told OilPrice.com. “Originally when he was appointed [as Minister of Natural Resources in 2006], this 20 to 30 per cent was passed off as ‘going to an account that would be used for the benefit of the Kurdish people’ but this pretence seems to have been dropped now,” he added.

When Dynasty Petroleum refused to pay, not only was the change of control of consent not waved through as would be the norm but – according to the ‘Particulars of Claim’ report on outlining this case to the Royal Courts of Justice and obtained by OilPrice.com – a systematic campaign of harassment and intimidation against key figures in Dynasty Petroleum began.

As detailed in the legal claim, this harassment began with Qubad Talabani, the Deputy Prime Minister of the KRG since June 2014, and member of the Regional Council for Oil and Gas Affairs of the Kurdistan Region – apparently acting as an agent for Hawrami – making a WhatsApp call to Hiwa Awat Ali, executive chairman of Dynasty Petroleum, demanding that he cancel the SPA with Repsol. Related: Corn Industry Battered By Shocking Ethanol Decision

When Ali declined to do so, Talabani responded that they (implying the KRG and Hawrami) would not let Ali set foot in Kurdistan again if he did not cancel the SPA. Just prior to this, Hawrami and other senior KRG figures had agreed to meet senior executives from Repsol in London on 7 May 2019, at which the KRG personnel repeated the same demand to cancel the SPA, an offer again that was declined.

Upping the ante even further, and detailed in the legal claim, Ali was then called to see the Head of Intelligence Operations of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) political party and KRG in Sulaymaniyah – Lahur Shex Jangi. Lahur then included Hawrami into the discussion on a conference call, and Hawrami requested that Lahur use force to make Ali cancel the SPA, a request that Lahur refused.

Such a request that Lahur use force to coerce Ali into cancelling the SPA was again made by Hawrami a few days later, at the end of May. At both of these meetings (on 4 May and 29 May), Hawrami specifically and expressly stated that he wanted to “take the contracts [PSCs] back from Repsol” so that he could to re-sell them, according to the court documents exclusively seen by OilPrice.com.

As it stands for the Dynasty Petroleum case, the KRG and Hawrami have 21 days from the date on which the legal submission is stamped and marked for consideration to respond. Dynasty Petroleum is suing for ‘”not less than US$1.5 billion” according to the Court documents, as this figure represents the loss of value to Dynasty Petroleum of the project not going ahead as agreed and as planned.

The evidence as presented in the court papers appears compelling and, given that the same U.K. court granted UAE-based Crescent Petroleum and Dana Gas a landmark verdict against the KRG, it is expected that a similarly positive result will be awarded but in a much quicker timeframe, given that the legal precedents are now fully and clearly laid out in that jurisdiction and court.

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Corruption in Iraq relating to oil, imagine that. 

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3 hours ago, 6ly410 said:

Zubaie also asserted Halbousi was abusing his position's authority by only approving the HJC’s requests against him only while ignoring “more than ten others.”

 

C'mon now Zubaie , congratulations you are the 1st to get busted , own your corrupt ways , no integrity in saying but...  but everyone is / was doing it , now right every wrong you committed in office ...letsroll 

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I’m shocked, NOT.  

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12 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

Corruption in Iraq relating to oil, imagine that. 

Noooooooooooooooooo Say it is not so.   

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PARLIAMENTARY INTEGRITY ATTACKS "MERCHANT DEPUTIES" AND ACCUSES THEM OF MONEY LAUNDERING

 

Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:55 AM

Baghdad / National News Center

A member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee high Nassif, on Thursday, the rise of some traders to the House of Representatives to protect their interests, noting that there are deputies with banks, an attempt to launder money or give immunity to protect himself.

Nassif told the National News Center NNC, that "during this session we noticed the rise of some merchants to the House of Representatives, including a large bank is an attempt to launder his money or give immunity to himself better than to be protected from political figures and this has a negative impact on the House."

She added that "some deputies in the Integrity Committee during the last session have taken this trend."

She pointed out that "some of the deputies came to the House of Representatives to protect his interests and there are deputies intervened to prevent the passage of important laws, including (where do you get this)," pointing out that "the law was developed as part of the work of the Integrity Commission and we hoped to be an independent law to expose the corrupt" .

https://nnciraq.com/15536/

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Document .. Parliamentary submitted to Abdul Mahdi "documents and evidence" on corruption cases in the Interior Ministry

 

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 2019/08/22 03:27:04

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MP Alia Nassif said on Thursday that she submitted to the Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi documents, evidence and files on cases of corruption and smuggling crimes and money laundering involving people belonging to the Interior Ministry.

Nassif's media office said in a statement that the latter "formally requested an investigation into these cases because the persons involved are dangerous to the country and hold high positions in the state."

 

https://www.shafaaq.com/ar/سیاسة/وثيقة-برلمانية-ترفع-لعبد-المهدي-وثائق-وادلة-خاصة-بقضايا-فساد-في-وزارة-الداخلية/

 

 

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Lagging management

Friday 23 August 2019 40

 

Thamer Alhimos

The total number of projects in Najaf and Babil, according to the Integrity Commission (527) projects, 240 in Najaf and 287 in Babylon, because of the financial crisis, which spent more than 284 billion dinars, and the rest of the lagging and stalled on suspicion of corruption.

As for the Najaf projects, there are 104 projects, including 45 projects with financial and administrative irregularities, which are centrally funded, while referred by the Investment Commission of Najaf, has reached 136 projects, which is lagging and not without suspicions of corruption.  

We can imagine the size of projects lagging at the national level due to the financial crisis resulting from the fight against "IS" and added to them reconstruction projects and the delay and suspicion, and we have to appreciate the amounts allocated and disbursed and then stopped and the impact on both sides of unemployment and investment.

The reluctant projects are residential, industrial, agricultural, infrastructure and tourism. Trade, which aborted industry and agriculture to open the door wide for alternatives, and therefore did not rise Iraqi projects as long as their alternatives keep pace with the economic and financial process.   

Stalled and lagging projects, where corruption broke out, the old ones have been stalled since the 1980s, whether civil, governmental or mixed (projects that flourished in the 1990s) and then declined.

It seems that this phenomenon, as a continuous decline, behind the agendas of different trends, such as international and regional and this nature of things in all experiences of the advancement and challenge, the management of this file has been and still difficult for non-competent to address, whether individual or group since the eighties.     

The issue is no longer an issue of integrity, an inspector general and previous methods. The squares can accommodate dramatic change.     

The issue has nothing to do with the central authority as far as the administration is concerned. Financial control and near the passage of the Law of the Service Council and the Federal Court, and these are only guarantors of the success of the management of this file and restore matters to the administrative, financial and economic.

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Integrity reveals the results of its investigation of Green Zone properties

Friday 23 August 2019 65

 

Baghdad / morning

The Integrity Commission, the directive of Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi to form a committee to move to the real estate occupied by the current and former officials, and determine the date of their occupation and the financial entitlements arising from the occupants, in order to pay. "This directive came after briefing the Prime Minister on the results of the report prepared by the Commission on the measures taken on the distinctive real estate belonging to the state in Baghdad and the provinces seized by officials and influential reached by the Central Commission team," the investigation department said in a statement. “The committee consists of the Real Estate Department of the Prime Minister's Office, the State Real Estate Department of the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Audit Bureau.” The circuit pointed out "

On the other hand, the Office of the Inspector General of the Ministry of Construction, Housing, Municipalities and Public Works Ayman Noman Ayada, on Friday, the dismissal of a number of ministry employees and refer them to the judiciary in cooperation with the Integrity Commission.

The office said in a statement received "morning" that a number of employees of the municipalities of Diyala province have been removed from their posts and referred to the judiciary in cooperation with the Commission on Integrity, adding that "the investigative and supervisory committees proved that the isolated employees falsified land land belonging to municipalities Facebook Facebook logo Links on "Diyala province.

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Abdul Mahdi calls on the Ministry of Oil to implement its obligations to eliminate oil smuggling

 

Abdul Mahdi during the meeting of the Anti-Corruption Council

energy Economy News - Baghdad: Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi called on the Ministry of Oil to implement the recommendations of the oil smuggling file to eliminate corruption in the oil file. Abdul-Mahdi's office said in a press statement received by the economy news, "The Prime Minister directed the necessity of the commitment of the Ministry of Oil to implement the recommendations on the file of oil smuggling and the timetable set for this purpose, while following up the executive procedures to ensure the elimination of corruption systems in the oil file." Views: 65   Date Added: 24/08/2019

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The Supreme Council for Combating Corruption reviews the statistics of integrity issues for 2019

Date of edit:: 2019/8/24 9:40 • 168 times read

(BAGHDAD: Al-Furat News) The Supreme Council for Combating Corruption, on Saturday, a statistic of the integrity issues presented in the competent courts for 2019.

"The Supreme Council for Combating Corruption held its seventeenth session under the chairmanship of Adel Abdul Mahdi, where he reviewed the latest developments, especially with regard to measures taken in the field of combating corruption by the executive, judicial and supervisory authorities," the prime minister's office said in a statement. And follow-up the implementation of the recommendations approved by the Council and implementation as appropriate. " 
The statement added, "The Council was briefed on the statistics provided by the Supreme Judicial Council, including the integrity cases submitted for the year 2018 before the competent courts and the number of 8824 cases in all of Iraq, including 5847 cases for all the trials," stressing "the need to assign the judiciary and enable judges to perform their functions, especially related to cases Integrity with the need for speedy decision.
The Council discussed, according to the statement, "a number of topics on the agenda," while the Prime Minister directed "the necessity of the commitment of the Ministry of Oil to implement the recommendations on the file of oil smuggling and the timetable set for this purpose, while following up the executive procedures to ensure the elimination of corruption systems in the file Oil. " 
The Council reviewed, "Draft Memorandum of Understanding with the Iranian side on the file of combating drugs and integrated measures that are in the interest of both countries," noting that "Abdul-Mahdi commissioned the relevant authorities to prepare a comprehensive study to ensure aspects of drug control, and empower the cadres, and provide equipment and tools, as well as making This draft is the basis for the conclusion of further agreements with neighboring and regional states, as well as bilateral agreements with various countries, and the need to finalize and sign the final draft urgently. "
The statement pointed out that "the Council discussed the report of the Commission on the integrity of companies operating in the field of customs clearance at the border outlets, which did not meet the legal requirements and directed the Council to take legal procedures and hold accountable all violators and those involved in this aspect." 
The Cabinet discussed "a set of steps and measures that enhance transparency and protect public money, which the Prime Minister directed to the need to present to the concerned and complete their requirements in order to be adopted and announced and obliged government institutions to implement as far as it is concerned." 
The Supreme Council for Combating Corruption welcomed "the attitudes of MPs and their initiatives to provide the necessary documents and evidence to enable the supervisory and judicial authorities to support them in the performance of their work."

 

 

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Abdul Mahdi calls on the Ministry of Oil to implement its obligations to eliminate oil smuggling

 

Abdul Mahdi during the meeting of the Anti-Corruption Council

energy Economy News - Baghdad: Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi called on the Ministry of Oil to implement the recommendations of the oil smuggling file to eliminate corruption in the oil file. Abdul-Mahdi's office said in a press statement received by the economy news, "The Prime Minister directed the necessity of the commitment of the Ministry of Oil to implement the recommendations on the file of oil smuggling and the timetable set for this purpose, while following up the executive procedures to ensure the elimination of corruption systems in the oil file." Views: 65   Date Added: 24/08/2019

Thanks Yota, I would be interested if it calls for the activation of the HCL.

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Ministers: 8824 cases of integrity before the Iraqi courts

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi

 24 August 2019 06:33 PM

Baghdad - Mubasher: The Supreme Council for Combating Corruption held its 17th session under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to review the latest developments, especially with regard to the measures taken in the field of combating corruption by the executive, judicial and supervisory authorities, and follow up the implementation of the recommendations approved by the Council and implement them according to competence .

A statement by the Information Office of the Prime Minister that "the Council reviewed the statistics provided by the Supreme Judicial Council include the integrity cases before the courts before the competent number of 8,824 cases across Iraq and completed 5847 cases of all courts."

The Council stressed "the need to assign the judiciary and enable judges to perform their tasks, especially those related to issues of integrity with the need to resolve quickly ."

The statement added that "the Council discussed a number of topics on the agenda," noting that "the Prime Minister directed the necessity of the commitment of the Ministry of Oil to implement the recommendations on the file of oil smuggling and the timetable set for this purpose with follow-up executive procedures to ensure the elimination of corruption systems in the file Oil . "

The Council reviewed the draft memorandum of understanding with the Iranian side on the file of combating drugs and integrated measures that are in the interest of both countries.

The Prime Minister instructed the relevant authorities to prepare a comprehensive study that includes the aspects of combating drugs, empowering the working cadres, providing equipment and tools, as well as making this draft a basis for concluding further agreements with neighboring and regional countries, as well as bilateral agreements with different countries, and the need to finalize the final draft urgently. And sign these agreements.

The Council also discussed "the report of the Integrity Commission on companies operating in the field of customs clearance at border ports that did not meet the legal requirements and directed the Council to take legal procedures and hold accountable all violators and those involved in this aspect ."

The Cabinet discussed "a set of steps and procedures that enhance transparency and protect public money, which directed the Prime Minister to present them to the concerned parties and complete their requirements in order to be adopted and announced and obliging government institutions to implement as far as they are concerned ."

 The Supreme Council for Combating Corruption welcomed the attitudes of MPs and their initiatives to provide the necessary documents and evidence to enable the supervisory and judicial authorities and support them in the performance of their work. Control of the completion of its work . "

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2019/08/25 20:05

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Parliamentary Integrity: The Anti-Corruption Council loses its content. No one has been held accountable for corruption

 

Baghdad / Obelisk: A member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee Jawad al-Saadi, underestimated the value and importance of the work of the Supreme Council against Corruption, describing it as "lost its content."

Saadi said in a press statement, Sunday, August 25, 2019: "This Council was not able to hold accountable any person accused of corruption."

He added: "The Anti-Corruption Council has lost its content by not knowing what he has accomplished and presented."

"Are the figures cited by the Supreme Anti-Corruption Council really and really on the ground?" He asked. "There are a lot of ministers, heads of independent bodies and former general inspectors accused of corruption but without accountability."

Al-Saadi said: "There are more than one minister in the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi had been sentenced in previous periods against them for their involvement in corruption files, but were covered by the law of general amnesty."

The Anti-Corruption Council revealed on Sunday, 25 August 2019, the transfer of files of former conservatives, including current deputies to the judiciary, pointing to the number of wanted Iraqis added to the Interpol Red Bulletin.

The Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has announced the restructuring of the Anti-Corruption Council early this year and includes in its membership of the Integrity Commission and the Office of Financial Supervision and Office of Inspectors and the Prosecutor General, in order to follow up the files of corruption and waste of public money and money laundering operations.

Iraq tops the Global Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International, which ranked Iraq in 2018 as "the most corrupt in the world."

The council's observer, Saeed Yassin Moussa, said in a statement that `` as part of the work methodology of the Supreme Council against Corruption, coordination among its member institutions, which resulted in the presentation of 8824 cases before the courts in 2019, of which 5847 cases were completed for all courts. ''

In its last meeting, the Council stressed the need to support the judiciary and enable judges to perform their duties, especially those related to integrity issues with the need for speedy resolution, calling on the Ministry of Oil to implement the recommendations on the oil smuggling file and the timetable set for this purpose with the follow-up of executive procedures.

Moussa explained that "previous meetings of the Supreme Council for Combating Corruption and in coordination with the Commission on Integrity, Justice and Prosecution presented more than 8,000 cases before the courts," stressing that "the Council seeks to zero all cases of corruption," pointing out that "work continues to follow 2900 of the total cases before the courts, which exceeded more than eight thousand cases. "

Turning to the observer member that "the judgments issued in 5847 a variety of cases between the existence of manipulation in government contracts, and exceeded the powers to sign contracts, bribery, and the implementation of procedures for incomplete contracts, and not to include the state funds, which incurred a large budget losses", pointing to "Most of those who have been convicted have distinguished these rulings in the competent courts."

Moussa also stressed that "there are five current deputies who were working previously conservative among those whose cases were resolved by the competent courts after the transfer of their papers," pointing out that "the cases of these five deputies filed files on integrity, while the remaining deputies have different issues not related Integrity file. "

The Supreme Judicial Council has called on parliament to lift the immunity of 21 deputies accused of financial and administrative corruption spotted during their tenure in various executive positions.

The parliamentary Integrity Committee revealed last week that the procedures to lift the immunity signed by the speaker of parliament, Mohamed Halbousi affected 12 deputies accused of financial and administrative corruption, adding that the parliament addressed the Supreme Judicial Council to confirm the validity of the papers of nine others before lifting immunity from them.

Moussa spoke about the inclusion of "current deputies on the list of accused of corruption," but "the determination of this issue is up to the investigations conducted by the competent courts in 2900 cases before the judiciary," noting that "there are 11 former ministers and those who have been sentenced in the five thousand cases Issued by the competent courts with special grades and general directors, "noting that" among the cases that have completed the file recovery of funds. "

He added that the number of wanted persons outside Iraq as accomplished by the Anti-Corruption Council before 2019 has become 184 wanted and in more than 450 cases present in 34 countries have been included in the Red Notice in Interpol.

The Parliamentary Legal Committee, revealed on August 5, the existence of 21 requests to lift the immunity of members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives by the Supreme Judicial Council, including 10 on charges of financial and administrative corruption and 11 on criminal charges.

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PARLIAMENTARY INTEGRITY REVEALS LATEST EPILEPSY OF CORRUPTION AND SUGGESTS TO ABDEL MAHDI “FIRST STEP”

 

Monday, 26 August 2019 12:15 PM

Baghdad / National News Center

A member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, Alia Nassif, revealed Monday that some political forces are extorting corrupt ministers, pointing out that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi should reform the administrative apparatus in the Iraqi state to eliminate half of the corruption.

Nassif said in a statement to the National News Center NNC, that "there are some political forces are blackmailing political against some ministers who have files of corruption."

"We assured the Prime Minister of the need to reform the administrative apparatus, because this represents the first step to reform the Iraqi state system."

Nassif added that “when the administrative apparatus is stuck with agents and managers, it will prevent corruption even if the minister is corrupt,” stressing that “if we reformed the administrative apparatus, we would eliminate half of the corruption.”

She pointed out that "our demands to end the agencies in the Iraqi state to end the rampant state of corruption, but turned on a curse because the political blocs are grappling with each other on the administrative apparatus to get general managers and agents to improve their economic and political situation."

She explained that “We have noticed in the recent lists issued by the Council of Ministers for directors and some agents and the presence of the same names supported by blocks

"Where is the reform in the administrative apparatus that we have demanded?"

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Monday 26 August 2019 12:09 PM| The number of readings: 44

 

Petroleum products seize nests to smuggle derivatives in different regions

BAGHDAD / ... Oil products distribution company announced on Monday, seizing dens to smuggle different oil products in different provinces.

The director general of the distribution company Kazem Masir Yassin said in a statement that "the company through the inspection body seized a tanker does not have identification papers and official capacity (36) thousand liters containing gasoline product at one of the filling stations in the province of Kirkuk shortly preceded another similar operation in the same Governorate".

"They seized another tank with a capacity of (36) thousand liters loaded with gas oil product inside one of the filling stations belonging to the district of Tuz in Salah al-Din province and does not carry official identification papers," Yassin said, adding that "these seizures were intended for smuggling."

"Legal measures have been taken against smugglers and confiscation of oil products," he said.

For his part, Director of the Inspection Authority affiliated to the distribution company Hussein Shamkhi that "the cadres of the body is fulfilling its duties to the fullest by monitoring any possible defect in the movement of petroleum products and follow-up mechanism of access to distribution sites in all governorates, in addition to relying on intelligence received By the energy police. "

He explained, "The Commission upon receipt of information proceeds to the formation of joint committees with the relevant authorities to control those violations and refer violators and those involved to the judiciary to receive their punishment."

 

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Judiciary: Graduated 236 judicial investigators specialized in the field of criminal investigation

Date: 2019/8/26 13:48 • 75 times read

(Baghdad: Euphrates News) The Supreme Judicial Council announced the graduation of a new session of judicial investigators to supplement the investigative courts specialized investigators in the field of criminal investigation.

"The Judicial Institute of the Supreme Judicial Council held a course to prepare judicial investigators for the legal staff of the Council with a bachelor's degree in law and above in which 294 employees participated," a statement from the media center received said. 
The statement said that "the course lasted for three months under which the theoretical study of the prescribed materials as well as practical application in the courts of investigation in which 236 succeeded after passing the written examinations and the last oral by a judicial committee formed for this purpose." 
The statement pointed out that "the Judicial Institute held the session in accordance with the guidance of the President of the Council Judge Faiq Zidan and the requirements of the public interest and to supplement the courts of investigation in the presidencies of the Federal Courts of Appeal all competent cadres of investigators specialized in the field of criminal investigation."
He noted that "the Council seeks to ensure the speed of completion of cases and accuracy of investigative work with the availability of legal guarantees necessary for the accused in the investigation phase." is over

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PARLIAMENTARY INTEGRITY REVEALS LATEST EPILEPSY OF CORRUPTION AND SUGGESTS TO ABDEL MAHDI “FIRST STEP”

Monday, 26 August 2019 12:15 PM

 

 

 

Baghdad / National News Center

A member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, Alia Nassif, revealed Monday that some political forces are extorting corrupt ministers, pointing out that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi should reform the administrative apparatus in the Iraqi state to eliminate half of the corruption.

Nassif said in a statement to the National News Center NNC, that "there are some political forces are blackmailing political against some ministers who have files of corruption."

"We assured the Prime Minister of the need to reform the administrative apparatus, because this represents the first step to reform the Iraqi state system."

Nassif added that “when the administrative apparatus is stuck with agents and managers, it will prevent corruption even if the minister is corrupt,” stressing that “if we reformed the administrative apparatus, we would eliminate half of the corruption.”

She pointed out that "our demands to end the agencies in the Iraqi state to end the rampant state of corruption, but turned on a curse because the political blocs are grappling with each other on the administrative apparatus to get general managers and agents to improve their economic and political situation."

She explained that “We have noticed in the recent lists issued by the Council of Ministers for directors and some agents and the presence of the same names supported by blocks

"Where is the reform in the administrative apparatus that we have demanded?"

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With (writings) .. "Hashim Shamma" reveals .. Thus plunge Iraq corruption "Central Bank"!

 Monday, August 26, 2019

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• Some banks were receiving the "dollar" and do not recognize the amounts of "Iraqi dinar" actually!
• The gates of corruption remained lawful for the lack of integration of previous audits and procedures
• Exaggeration in the building of the “Central Bank” may be behind a large corruption!
• Is it possible that the number of banks in Iraq exceeds those of Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Lebanon?
• An American employee of Iraqi origin controls the decisions of the "Central Bank" and all decisions are made for his own interests!

Special: Interviewed by Nashwa Hefni

"Central Bank"; one of the important constitutional institutions regulating and maintaining the Iraqi economy, which is the cornerstone of the cohesion of the state of the four-way collapses: political, security, economic and social, but the functioning of the "Central Bank" of Iraq has been punctuated, after the US occupation of "Iraq", the year 2003, many illegal practices opened the doors of corruption, remarkably, amid the chaos, which prevailed, during the US occupation of "Iraq", and the doors of corruption have remained wide open, perhaps to this hour.

Following a careful follow-up of the files of the "Central Bank" of Iraq and its work, conducted by the "Center for Legal Development of Iraq," has been diagnosed several major irregularities, submitted by the Center, officially, to the "Supreme Judicial Council - Public Prosecution -" Integrity Commission, as well as to " Supreme Council for Combating Corruption ”; for the purpose of scrutinizing these violations and take legal action.

In this extensive dialogue, conducted by Ketabat with a member of the Iraq Center for Legal Development, Hashim al-Shammaa, these violations were highlighted.

(Writings) : Many accusations leveled against the "Central Bank of Iraq" were dangerous to harm the national economy .. What are the most prominent of these charges?

• Regarding the accusations leveled against the Central Bank earlier, most notably the bank's dealings with the sale of the dollar (dollar). The gap still exists, and it negatively affects the Iraqi economy, and based on the information we have and some of the documents we have seen, we have confirmed a number of legal audits at work.

(Writings) : What are these audits .. which you have proven?

• The previous audits and investigations in this file have not been conducted in an integrated and pivotal manner, and this has caused this section of corruption to remain open in a manner that has a negative impact on the Iraqi economy, as these investigations were conducted with the executives of some banks; without linking them to employees in the "Central Bank" Or other relevant departments, including private banks.

(Writings) : But all this was done according to fundamentalist bills, which leads to suspicion or accusation or refute them?

• Previous investigations have focused on the formality of bills, bills prepared by the hawala owner or bank to the Central Bank, which is easy to prove that these bills are unofficial (not issued by official bodies), but by companies.

(Writings) : But all these remittances were in the millions of dollars withdrawn from the "Central Bank" and was spent to buy goods entered into "Iraq"?

• It must be confirmed through the Iraqi official bodies .. Is the goods have been introduced to the amounts of these remittances, everyone knows that it is not reasonable to enter into Iraq "goods equal to the amounts of remittances, and if proven, we will be in front of complex crimes, (fraud + fraud + smuggling Money + damage to the national economy)

(Writings) : Is it possible that these remittances are audited by the Central Bank employees as well?

• Central Bank employees, like all Iraqi employees, are charged with public service. They must make an effort to check the authenticity of invoices and forged documents, and if they are accepted - even if in good faith - they should be held legally accountable. The theory of side agreements that violate the law between some employees of the Central Bank and the owners of banks.

(Writings) : "The Central Bank" sells the currency, (the dollar), to customers .. Where is the problem?

• Was it verified and verified that the owner of the transfer is a customer of the bank (that is, he has an account in it), which he mediates between him and the Central Bank to buy the currency (the dollar), and whether this customer has sufficient amounts in his account for the amount of the transfer to be requested from the Central Bank? ?!.. this is the question.

(Writings) : Where are the beneficiaries of fraudulent bank transfers or violation of them?

• The owners of companies, traders, contractors or any other importer; in this way, make bank transfers, has been conducted investigations and audits about the validity of the existence of these companies? .. Is the person who the transfer is a trader? .. And does he have the documents, which prove it or what it is like And, of course, if we went deeper into the investigation, we would find that things had been in front of allegations with headings that are not true and unfounded.

(Writings) : How was the process of buying the currency, (the dollar) .. exactly?

• The purchase of the currency, (the dollar), was done at the time of the previous administrations electronically, (some banks were receiving the dollar without actually handing over the amounts in Iraqi dinars), in other words, some banks agreed with the employees of the "Central Bank" on that without They make any payments for millions of dollars and pay them after they are sold in local markets.

(Writings) : Has it been ascertained by international banks that these remittances have actually been transferred to them?

• No, the international banks to which the alleged remittances have been transferred have not been ascertained, have they been transferred to the relevant authorities (the purpose of the remittance), or have been remitted to other accounts, either at the bank itself or to other banks, Here we will be sure that we are facing the crime of currency smuggling.

(Writings) : With regard to irregularities in the work of the "Central Bank of Iraq" .. Did you diagnose only a violation of the sale of "dollar" or there are other irregularities?

• The recent administration of the Central Bank has almost tripled the number of banks in Iraq, without any feasibility study. This opened the door to a new corruption, which is the sale and purchase of foundation permits.

(Writings) : When the phenomenon of "private banks" spread .. Did the "central bank" imposed on them determinants and set requirements and take action?

• The management of the “Central Bank” required banks to increase their capital for the purpose of obtaining an advanced classification. Any amounts.

(Writings) : How do you think this opened the gaps of corruption in the work of the "Central Bank of Iraq"?

• It was the confusion, which marred the decisions of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank, which allowed some corrupt to exploit the gaps created by those decisions, for example:

A- With respect to Islamic banks, three contradictory decisions were issued regarding entering the currency auction, and within a long period of time, one of them was prohibited, the other authorized, and the third was determined, all of which contravene Islamic Banking Law No. (43) of 2015.

B - The issuance of tables of the "Central Bank" in four categories, (A - B - C - D), in order to classify private banks in the currency auction, Class (A) has the highest share, and then Class (B) has a lower share, and it varies And to class (D) without any basis or standard for this classification, but is based on side agreements, and this classification changes from time to time until it came to cancel and return to the old system.

C - Issuing instructions, in 2015, not to demand customs permits, how is it - then - to verify the entry of goods?! .. This allowed the corrupt to exploit this window.

(Writings) : Who benefits from this administrative and financial corruption in the Central Bank?

• Many of the managers, especially in the important departments, are not competent and have been transferred to the Central Bank of the Investment Authority, and there is no relationship between the two institutions, we have to check to find the beneficiary.

(Writings) : Does the Iraqi government have absolute authority over the Central Bank of Iraq?

• There is even an American employee of Iraqi origin, “Sebastian Talaat Marcus”, who controls the Bank's detailed and strategic decisions, especially in the current administration.

(Writings) : In the past years, banking offices have also spread in a remarkable way. Has the investigation into the spread of this phenomenon been legal?

• Verify the licenses of banking companies granted in the past three years, numbering dozens of licenses, and they were issued either in return for money or for political parties.

(Writings) : I mentioned, just before, that some banking companies grant leave in favor of political parties .. What is the procedure to check backgrounds?

• Verification of banks that are affiliated with or supported by political entities will result in the disclosure of political corruption.

(Writings) : Do you think that there are other resources identified in the Bank's work that are tainted by corruption or suspicious transactions?

• Yes, the first is to check the exaggeration in the building of the "Central Bank" to be built.

(Writings) : Have you found other factors in the past years that led to corruption in the Central Bank?

• Yes .. The verification of the decision of the "Central Bank" to buy "gold", at a time when all reports indicate the low prices at that time, caused a great loss for "Iraq".

 

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Uncover corruption and serious accusations in the trade union .. The President of the Union responds

Release date:: 2019/8/27 23:31 • 147 times read

BAGHDAD: The former member of the Office of the Mechanics Union Ali Jalil al-Mayahi, corruption and serious accusations in the Trade Union of Iraq, while describing the President of the General Federation of Trade Unions in Iraq, Star Danbos, al-Mayahi "quorum."

Al-Mayahi told the program "Forbidden from the show" aired by the Euphrates satellite channel broadcast on the Euphrates channel tonight that "the workers bought decades ago buildings with their contributions, and they established it until after the fall, and in 2012 held labor elections and came through Star Dunbos and there is a union." 
"In 2015, Denbous began selling these buildings for billions of dollars in the trade union organization law no. 52 of 1987, article 40, which includes the sale of workers' property only with technicians." 
"The president of Diyala Federation complained that no one has the right to sell a property," he said. "It was illegally fired by Danbous, by putting an article in the law (52) of workers and the formation of a fake committee was dismissed and we have documents proving that."
Denbous issued two books with the same number and date differ in content in 2019 against the President of Diyala Union and a member of the Office of Trade Unions of Basra Fadhel Abdul Abbas Hamidi and referred the books to the judiciary, and the judiciary referred them to the Discipline Committee, note that this committee exclusively from the Executive Office, but it was not formed Of the members of the Bureau and the books were signed by a union employee. " 
The deputy for Diyala province Furat al-Tamimi revealed on December 5, the sale of one of the largest government buildings in the province, calling on the Integrity Commission, to investigate the sale because of the existence of "suspicions of wasting" billions of dinars of public money.
"Denbous accused me of stealing the cameras. He knows very well that I handed them over to the labor union representative at the Rusafa Labor Court (Ali Sabahi)," Mayahi said. "300 meters and a mall in the municipalities of Baghdad, which is realistic talk and all trade unionists know about it, and all the documents we have are true and through our sources in the Union." 
He concluded by saying that "the General Union is currently a well of funds for influential groups, headed by Danbos and evidence, he has fired 14 veteran workers leaders for violating his desire to sell real estate." 
For his part, described the head of the General Union of Iraqi workers Star Danubus, a member of the Office of the Union of Mechanics former "quorum and theft of the cameras of the General Union and has a warrant of arrest from the investigative judge Rusafa."
"As for the issue of Diyala, slander and lying, we have a book from Diyala proving that the value of the property is two billion and not {15} billion as they claim and the documents held by al-Mayahi are forged. We have documents proving the contrary," he said. 
He explained that "the Syndicate of Engineers in Diyala proved through the examination that the real estate is falling and unfit for habitation or practice of administrations, and we submitted it to the Council of the Judiciary, and also transferred the integrity of the case to the administrative judiciary in Diyala."

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2019/08/28 09:26

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Vice: corrupt and incompetent names have been submitted to the special grades file

BAGHDAD / Obelisk: warned MP from the building alliance Nassif, Wednesday 28 August 2019, from the "special bazaar" special grades, pointing out that there are corrupt and incompetent names have been submitted to those positions, while the efficiencies have been removed from the file of special grades, demanding the speaker of parliament Mohammed Halbousi intervene to restructure this file. 

Nassif said in a statement followed by obelisk, "Parliament committed a sin when it set a date to end the positions of the proxy, and thus led to the opening of a bazaar for these degrees, where the sale and purchase of these positions began." 

"The parliament's move to end the file of proxy posts has been invested wrongly and has been a positive step in favor of corruption and spoilers," she said.

She explained that "the previous component quota is better than the current, where it reached the narrowest points, where the corrupt and losers were nominated, while the competence and professionals were sidelined from these positions, and the Prime Minister to pay attention to these positions," stressing "the need for the intervention of the Speaker of Parliament to restructure this The file has opened after a bazaar in special grades and reached fictional prices, especially after the removal of competencies from these positions. " 

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Parliamentary Finance opens the files of the auction selling currency and electronic payment companies: corruption in millions of dollars

Political 08:56 - 31/08/2019

 

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Special- Mawazine News
A member of the parliamentary Finance Committee, on Saturday, opened the files of the auction sale of currency and the building of the Central Bank, while a source familiar with the existence of corruption millions of dollars.
Committee member Naji Redis Al-Saidi told Mawazine News that "the committee meets even during the legislative recess and we have investigative committees for the work of the Central Bank and the sale of currency and the project of the new building of the bank and electronic defense companies."
He added, "The investigation will be presented at the beginning of the next legislative term and all details of the investigations will be revealed."
For his part, said an informed source in an interview with / Mawazine News / "Corruption in the auction sale of currency continues so far, despite the measures taken by the Central Bank."
He added, "There are companies electronically convert currency out of Iraq through electronic payment companies," noting that "these companies exercise their work legally and have legal papers."
The source pointed out, "These companies show invoices and lists of purchases from abroad, but they are participating in the auction of the sale of currency, which amounts to millions of dollars per month."

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Making a case for ending the auctions IMO.

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2019/09/01 13:15

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Expert Tamimi: Officials appointed by Abdul Mahdi impersonators and imprisonment 10 years awaiting them .. These are the circumstances of the withdrawal of confidence from Parliament

BAGHDAD / Obelisk: Former judge and legal expert Ali al-Tamimi, said on Sunday, September 1, 2019 that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi violates articles 61 F5, 80 F5 and 76 of the Iraqi Constitution, regarding the appointment of proxy, Commenting on the decision to appoint the general managers, stressing that this is not possible without reference to the parliament.

The prime minister decided to appoint seven acting general inspectors, sparking controversy.

Al-Tamimi said in an interview with the Obelisk that the constitutional articles stipulated that the ministers should be appointed by a proposal from the Prime Minister and special grades and advisors by a proposal of the Council of Ministers and the approval of Parliament by an absolute majority and special grades from the Director General and above for civilians and from the provider and above for the military and security services.

He continued: The term of appointment by proxy according to the Civil Service Law 6 months, but appointment on its own must be approved by Parliament.

Al-Tamimi added: `` Article 58 of the 2019 Budget Law stipulates that the appointment by proxy expires on 30.6.2019. This means that all decisions taken by the appointees of the agency after this date shall be invalid and subject to appeal before the administrative judiciary.The Parliament needs to legislate the appointment law on its own origin and set a fixed term for appointment. The agency used to be one month only, but if they continue to work, they will be subjected to the crime of impersonation and 10 years imprisonment in accordance with law 160 of 1983.

The legal expert that "statistics say the number of appointees agency has reached more than 5 thousand and the parliament is required to review that important file," noting that "to challenge the decisions of appointment by proxy before the administrative judiciary and parliament can ask Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi also."

Extension of the provincial council

Al-Tamimi spoke to Al-Masala about the right of the provincial council to freeze the work of the local council in the judiciary, saying that article 20 of the provincial council law 21 of 2008 stipulates that the local council in the judiciary is dissolved by an absolute majority of its members at the request of one third of its members in cases of deliberate negligence and violation of the constitution. And the loss of membership conditions and one-third of the members ..

Tamimi revealed that the parliament dissolved the local council in the judiciary for the same reasons above at the request of a third of its members ... The local council in the judiciary may object to the Federal Court on that.

Tamimi pointed out that the provincial council may dissolve the local council in the judiciary at the request of the existing maqam or one-third of the members of the Council, and did not mention in all these details something called freezing or disruption of work, neither the parliament nor the provincial council to freeze the local judiciary council ...

Withdrawal of confidence from the Speaker of Parliament

Tamimi explained the legal aspects related to calls to withdraw confidence from the Speaker of Parliament in accordance with the Constitution, saying that the withdrawal of confidence is at the request of one-third of the members and reasoned and the request is submitted to vote in the parliament if the absolute majority vote to attend means half the number of attendance plus one And turns into an ordinary vice ....

He explained that if a majority vote of the total number means half of the total number plus one to get him out of parliament, he will become a normal citizen, according to the prior demand.

Tamimi revealed that the replacement in case of dismissal by a majority vote for those who replace him .... As stated in Law 49 of 2007 Article 2 and article 12 P 2 of the rules of procedure of the Parliament.

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Integrity is discussing with the Australian Embassy a mechanism to review evidence of conviction for major corruption cases

 

Alnoor News / Baghdad

The President of the Integrity Commission Salah Nouri Khalaf, on Monday, with the Australian Embassy in Iraq mechanism to review evidence of conviction of major corruption cases.

A statement issued by the Integrity Commission received a "light news" a copy of it, that "the President of the Commission, met today, the Australian Ambassador to Iraq (John Lundies)."

During the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on enabling the Iraqi side to have access to evidence related to major corruption cases and to recover the funds and suspects wanted by the Iraqi side in Australia through direct coordination with the Australian Public Prosecution and the relevant authorities.

Khalaf called during the meeting to "strengthen the bonds of cooperation with the Australian side, especially in the area of money recovery and major corruption cases, as well as the case (Ona Oil), which addressed the Australian side; in order to enable them to the evidence available to them and ways to preserve."

For her part, the Australian Ambassador stressed, her serious endeavor to strengthen the bonds of cooperation with Iraq in general and the oversight bodies in particular, especially in the development of the skills and expertise of its staff, especially investigative, explaining the mechanism through which to monitor the inflation of funds of officials in the Australian government.

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