Customs revenues achieved a 48-fold and the looting of revenue is still in full swing

Il Giornale February 11, 2017

BAGHDAD - Haider Daami

Attorney Sirhan Ahmed was not cackling Speaking of space, he says in a press statement that "the government is unable to pursue all the corrupt and the corrupt, not only at border crossing points and customs, but also in the rest of the levers of government departments in the center and the provinces," .. He must have know about it know for sure by virtue of its membership the Finance Committee, which we knew from the late former president Ahmad Chalabi, the Committee is available on the tons of documents relating to the administrative and financial corruption, which made a lot of them to the integrity Commission and the judiciary, and we published here in this newspaper some easy ones.

A face of corruption and face in Iraq, and perhaps this figure was modest. MP Ahmed Sarhan talked about one of the most dangerous and the most important of these faces, it is corruption at border crossing points and customs services. "There is corruption at border crossings and smuggling and customs exemptions and charging at random on imported goods and the resolutions issued by the ports without reference to its directorates, and all these processes of corruption and waste of public money and adversely affect the Iraqi economy," he said.

MP Ahmed ratified by the Prime Minister's Office announced that the achievements in the course of the fight against corruption and control of border crossings and customs checkpoints. FBI spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said in a statement that he completed "important stages to adjust the border crossings and subject to the control and the establishment of customs checkpoints between the cities and in the entrances to the capital, Baghdad, to strengthen the supervisory role and validate the actions taken at border crossing points for the application of tariff and meet the specific tax on imported goods." .

The good news also said in a statement that the newborn revenue from the customs sector, "rose to unprecedented levels exceeded the revenue generated by the implementation of these measures dozens of times where customs revenue jumped from less than half a billion dinars in the first month of last year (2016) before the application procedures the new regulators to about 24 billion dinars in the last month of the year after starting work with these procedures. "

The difference here is very large, as we see, increase in revenue was by 48-fold, reflecting the alarming scale of corruption in this sector.

Assumed that the anti-corruption policy is not limited to the reduction of procedures, Vafassdon always have the potential to circumvent the laws and procedures and emptied of its content, as long as remains in office and their sites. Question: Do you have involved government action on the fight against corruption at border crossing points and customs or involve the accountability of those responsible for the corruption of the pre these procedures?

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