Newspapers are continuing to recover smuggled Iraqi money .. and the liberation of the German activist

[Mary B]

Newspapers are continuing to recover smuggled Iraqi money .. and the liberation of the German activist

Sunday 26, July 2020

Baghdad / Nina / Newspapers published in Baghdad today, Sunday, the twenty-sixth of July, the issue of the recovery of Iraqi money smuggled abroad, and the liberation of the German activist Hella Movis.

On the subject of contraband funds, the newspaper "Al-Zawraa", published by the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, said: "Parliamentary calls continue to investigate the amount of money smuggled abroad, amid assurances that the process of recovering it is risky and needs an international effort."

Member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee MP Jamal Muhammad said, according to the newspaper: "The file of smuggled money carries a lot of hidden things, and there are already influential people, in addition to neighboring countries, that have prevented successive governments from opening this important file in earnest for many years." To that: "There is no specific number that accurately reveals the amount of Iraqi money that has been smuggled abroad."

He added: "The Parliament approved the law to recover money from Iraq, and made an amendment to it in May 2019, but so far, no smuggled money has been recovered," noting that "there are a lot of files that include numbers and documents related to the big smuggled money, but so far There is no serious government move to recover it despite the passage of many years. "

The decision of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, Abdul Amir Al-Mayahi, confirmed the preparation of lists to recover the smuggled money outside Iraq.

"Al-Zawraa" quoted Al-Mayahi as saying: "The committee has a complete list regarding the smuggled funds, which contain the names of people and the funds that are outside Iraq," noting: "The Corona pandemic prevented movement of these funds."

He added: "The Integrity Committee summoned the head of the money recovery department outside Iraq to find out what before and after 2003 of the money, and after the pandemic is over, the file will be fully followed up."

As for Al-Zaman newspaper, it followed the issue of the liberation of the kidnapped German activist, Hella Movis, and her return to her country.

She referred in this regard to the words of legal expert Tariq Harb: "The liberation of the German from her captors is a new success for Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi and the security services, but we had hoped that the competent authorities would mention something about the kidnapping and who was the party that carried out it."

Harb added: "It would have been better to mention the party that carried out the kidnapping and the reasons for the kidnapping, and whether it was for the purpose of paying a ransom or for political or personal reasons, but what the camera that showed the kidnapping showed was that the kidnapping occurred from more than one car and cut off a highway through which many of Cars, and this does not happen from kidnappers or from a gang, but rather from a larger and more capable side, as reported in many media outlets. "

The legal expert continued: "The security authorities did not mention any details, and thus increased doubts about the kidnapping side," noting: "This crime is one of the dirtiest crimes, so the penal code and the anti-terrorism law punished her with death even if the kidnapping lasted for only minutes." / is over

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[Donziman]

Recovering money is risky business. No kidding.It's like bringing 

something up against Bill Clinton. Strange things happen to these people.

No worry we're going to get right on this "after the pandemic is over  LOL 

 

[Mary B]

Al-Aqili: Very large corruption cases are politically protected, and the outlets are one of the most important silent files

 Time: 7/26/2020 23:20:54

 

 

  

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The former head of the Integrity Commission, Rahim al-Akili, confirmed the existence of major corruption cases protected from politicians.

Al-Okaili said (for Al-Furat News) that "the political parties have recognized their responsibility for corruption and the story lies in the inability to activate accountability and political will to confront corruption," noting that "the true protection of corruption is political and the judiciary cannot confront political corruption and if the state protects the corrupt, what does integrity do."
He added that "the recovery of the accused and the money from abroad require conditions for success, especially since the corrupt personalities are protected by their foreign nationalities or their political influence." 
Al-Ugaili pointed out that "there is a legal text in all countries of the world that citizens cannot be extradited because their law and constitution do not allow extradition from outside the country of nationality, and the international police is a mechanism for coordination, not implementation."
He added, "Corruption has led the state to bankruptcy and the most important step for the state is to impose transparency in contracts and investments," noting that "the integrity of its mission is to collect evidence and documents and present them to the judiciary; but there are very large corruption cases that no one can pursue because they are protected from influential political parties." 
Al-Okaili indicated that “most of the corruption files in Iraq revealed and the hidden files are no less dangerous than those that were revealed, but accountability in Iraq is  
lame and opens the door to corruption for all.” Pointing out that “the prime minister, if he has a will against corruption, will be able to eliminate it and the tools are simple through imposing Political will on the corrupt. "
"The border crossing points are one of the most important silenced corruption files, and the army is not a tool to eradicate corruption in them," he said, stressing "the real need for real and effective remedies to stop all the gates of corruption."
Al-Ugaili added that "all corruption funds are washed abroad, since most of the thieves reside abroad, except for the Kurdistan region, which is built with the money of the corrupt. There is not yet a successful experiment to recover money from abroad, and there are no scientific foundations to know the amount of money stolen from Iraq."
Wafa al-Fatlawi

 

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