The Committee of Experts indicate "corruption and manipulation" accounts Ministries federal and Kurdistan and five provinces during 2015

Author: ASJ
Editor: BK

1/30/2017 18:59


Long-Presse / Baghdad
The Commission on governmental experts, on Monday, that the audit carried out by a global company accounts and federal Kurdish and five ministries and provinces in the past in 2015, revealed the existence of "corruption and manipulation" of public money, indicating that the company was not able to check some of the stakeholders activities for not providing them with the required documents , Ktefasil amount exceeds Al651 billion for the relief of displaced people in the Ministry of Displacement and migration, as well as the rejection of others, the details of their contracts concluded during the year and those lagging from previous years.

She said the Committee of Financial Experts, a government committee formed by the Cabinet, in a statement, received a (long-Presse) a copy of it, that "the international auditing firm Ernst & Young has audited the Alternative Account Development Fund for Iraq for the period from (the first of January to the 31st of December 2015), based on the contract signed with the Ministry of Finance, "noting that" the Commission checked Ministries are all Iraqi government accounts, as well as the Ministries of the Kurdistan Regional government, and five provinces. "

The Commission added that "the results of the audit conducted by Ernst & Young, showed continued repetition common observations in a number of ministries and departments not associated with the Ministry, despite persistent assurances to overcome, especially since some of them are very important and influential on the health of the financial disposition and efficiency audits, whether internal or external," indicating that "the company stated in its report that it is still a conservative financial statements of opinion exists, because of the lack of verification of the amount of oil production in the Kurdistan region for the years 2013 - 2015, and the inability of the Government of Iraq to adopt a precise estimate of the value of the frozen assets abroad, which could be transferred to the development Fund Iraq, although the Committee of experts suggested at the time, the Ministry of Finance, the follow-up that file, according to Aidip. "

She stressed the Committee of Financial Experts, that "the international auditing firm has been unable to check some of the stakeholders that have the activities of high relative importance in the nature of its activity due to provide them with the required documents, and of which $ 651 billion, 129 million and 916 thousand and 720 dinars details for the purposes of relief to the displaced in the Ministry of Displacement and Migration ", pointing out that there are" ministries and government departments and other provinces refused to provide a detailed position their contracts concluded during 2015 and those lagging from previous years. "

And it founded the Committee of Financial Experts, based on the Cabinet decision, and began its work in (the first of April 2007), to be the supervision of a substitute for the International Council Advisory and Monitoring, which currently oversees the spending of Iraqi public funds derived from the production and export of oil and oil products, which are deposited in opening an account at the Federal reserve Bank of New York, based on UN Security Council resolutions passed after the overthrow of the former regime as the development Fund for Iraq, has this account granting international immunity, so as not to be liable to seizure and forfeiture as a result of an international court decisions, may be issued for the lawsuits and claims against previous system .

It is noteworthy that Iraq still tops the list of countries "most corrupt" in the world, and that efforts to Mkavhyth not produced tangible results yet.

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