Iraq .. Orders to arrest senior officials and the formation of a “court of corruption”
The Supreme Judicial Council on Thursday ordered the arrest of large heads accused of corruption and exceptional travel bans.
A statement of the Council received a copy of the Iraqi News Agency (conscious), that “the Council launched a vote to lift the immunity of deputies accused of corruption cases,” stressing “take legal action against them.”
The statement stressed “the right of peaceful demonstration and the need to respond to demands, while establishing investigative bodies in the provinces where protests broke out to investigate the events that accompanied them, and in a record time set up a central anti-corruption court dealing with what he called” major cases.
For his part, the spokesman of the Supreme Judicial Council Judge Abdul Sattar Bayrakdar said that “the Council issued a circular to all courts to implement the procedures of investigation with deputies wanted for crimes of financial and administrative corruption without the need to approach him in order to approach the House of Representatives after the latter voted to lift the immunity of deputies wanted “, pointing out that he was” emphasis on the executive bodies of the direct execution of arrest warrants or recruitment. ”
he pointed to” the issuance of arrest warrants and many recruitment against conservatives and members of the provincial Council and the inspectors and directors of two years in Baghdad and the provinces. ”
Regarding the judicial procedures in the events that accompanied the demonstrations, Bayrakdar added that “the judiciary formed investigative bodies that started their work in the governorates where the demonstrations took place.” Demonstrators and vandals who attack public property and citizens’ property. ”