Maliki reveals a dangerous precedent ports of Basra (Details)

12-02-2017 02:35 PM

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A member of the economic and investment commission in Parliament MP Abdul Salam al - Maliki, that the sonar device to examine the containers unloaded from ships at the port of Umm Qasr is not working , but after paying $ 100 for staff and members of the Guard in exchange for one container examination, considering it a 'dangerous precedent' in the ports of Basra, as it called integrity Commission to open an extended investigation into it.

Maliki said in a press statement, said that 'there checking sonar device to examine the containers unloaded from ships at the port of Umm Qasr, but the sonar staff and guards refuse to examine these containers after getting out of the boat and waiting for agent output or merchant to give them $ 100 for the container screening', noting that ' in the absence of these factors that sonar does not work in dangerous precedent in the ports of Basra '.

Maliki said a deputy from the province of Basra, the port of Umm Qasr addresses per day more than 500 container means that what it gets corrupt as a result of this process is 50 thousand dollars a day. "

He stressed that 'professional work requires to be a screening process after the descent of the container directly and isolates and qualify the offender is complemented by a good transport them, but what is happening is the bargains and waiting has been peppered with change and replace the suspicions of corruption and breaches clear may also facilitate transfers of materials is forbidden and a terrorist and not just file corruption '.

He called al - Maliki, the Integrity Commission and the concerned authorities at the Ministry of Transport, to 'follow this case and opened extensive investigations in this matter and not leave it going in this vein to the detriment of the economy and the security of the country in general and the province in particular.'

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