Parliamentary term financial affirm the right to publish Chalabi files, and experts warn of police procedures to return to Saddam's regime


2015/11/24

Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed on Tuesday that Ahmed Chalabi late files, published by the Foundation range of information, culture, arts, and documents "official non-confidential, which are no secrets of war or intelligence," indicating that it is currently pursuing of the judiciary and the Integrity Commission, while Financial experts count that "indifference "Integrity Commission was forced (range) for the detection of those documents under the right guaranteed by the Constitution and international conventions, warning of a return to the police procedures that were used by Saddam's regime for withholding information and facts about public opinion.


The (long) have begun to (the seventh of November 2015), disclose the files of corruption, which was the leader of the National Congress and the President of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, the late Ahmad Chalabi, intends exposed to public opinion, also published a new file for a money transfer companies that deal with the bank Central without being registered in the Ministry of Commerce.

Finance Committee: Chalabi's information official documents, not warfare secrets or intelligence

The head of the Committee, Faleh in force, in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The late MP Ahmad Chalabi, he received the documents published by the Foundation range of information, culture, arts, and other official capacity which, as head of the parliamentary finance committee and is not an ordinary home", pointing out that such "The documents were official documents from the Central Bank of Iraq itself, nor is it a secret or warfare or intelligence secrets may lead to damage the reputation of the country as remittances to banks Iraqi cooperation with other banks."

He said in effect, that those "documents are in the possession of investigators in the judiciary and the Integrity Commission," returned to "what the Governor of the Central Bank on the confidentiality of those documents lacks accuracy, and that the audit is continuing on them and on the auction currency sale by the highest watchdog in the country, a House of Representatives , about contributing to preserving the reputation of the central bank itself. "

The President of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, that "Chalabi files published by the term officially reserved for financial and documented Committee," noting that "the Finance Committee may be currently busy public budget, but it is a priority to follow up existing files have both belonged to the Central Bank or the ministries of defense or financial or other stakeholders. "

The Governor of the Central Bank on the Keywords said in a press conference attended by the (long-Presse) in (November 22, 2015) that "the central bank had hoped to be files that were published for the late Ahmad Chalabi secret because they are issues related to money laundering and published the detriment of cooperation with other States "Speaking of" the existence of memorandums of understanding signed with some countries not to publish these documents until fully verified. "

Financial expert: indifference to the Integrity Commission had revealed the extent of the documents Chalabi

For its part, promised a financial expert, the thoughtlessness of the Integrity Commission files Chalabi had long Foundation for Media, Culture and Arts published, under the right guaranteed by the Constitution to inform citizens on the information.

She said the safety of Sumaisem, in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that the "right of every citizen access to information, according to the Constitution guaranteed, especially if they are related to his life and future generations economic".

Considered Sumaisem, that "the lack of follow-up to the concerned authorities to file corruption and failing to take appropriate action towards it, makes it imperative for the media take the role to open those files and highlight them," indicating that "eating way media sober and poignant as a range of information, culture and the arts, to such files would that lead them to the widest possible range of popular and official involved in forcing the attention and necessary action. "
According to financial expert, that "Dr. Chalabi filed a copy of those files at the Foundation range of information, culture and the arts, and the other with reference and a third with the Integrity Commission," arguing that "the Integrity Commission should have taken actions on them even if it is about a secret, but not worried about being forced others to go for a discreet means of media such as institution-range to detect it. "

Academic: international conventions and the law of money laundering emphasize the freedom of access to information

And on the same level he saw the academic and financial expert, that there is a return of the police to the procedures that were used by the former regime to withhold information and facts about public opinion, stressing that the international conventions and the law of money laundering emphasize the freedom of information and access.

Said Abdul Rahman al-Mashhadani, in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "countries such as Iraq claims to democracy must be transparent in its dealings," noting that "Iraq is currently suffering from the problem of increasing the police actions and to conceal the information, especially in the financial and economic sphere in the return to the former regime who argue the confidentiality of information and national security for not detecting methods of public opinion. "
He said al-Mashhadani, that "the Governor of the Central Bank confirmed a few days ago that specialists information are all false, which counted against him because if he had cooperated with them and briefed them on the data owned by they could assist in the analysis of the economic situation and make the right decisions," and wondered "how not to resort specialists to media and other means to follow up the information if the central bank governor Ihbsaa in the drawers of his desk. "

The academic and financial expert, on "the lack of agreement to confidential economic information," and added that "many countries in the world accelerated to detect financial and banking files and all that has to do with corruption and money laundering-you-go, especially that the agreement stipulated in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank confirms on freedom of information, but that the money laundering adopted urgently law confirms the other is on the freedom of information and access. "

The head of the Foundation range of information, culture, arts, Fakhri Karim, handed in (the ninth of November the current 2015), President of the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Medhat al-Mahmoud, the full file to the issues of money laundering and smuggling of foreign currency Alambtaah from the central bank auction, who was Chairman of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives and the President of the Iraqi National Congress, the late MP Ahmad Chalabi, had deposited a copy of it with Mr. Karim, a student submission to the judiciary in the case of a hated.

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