Inspector of Finance: recovery of 56 billion dinars to the state treasury

2/13/2017 0:00

BAGHDAD / Tariq al-Araji
Inspector General of the Ministry of Finance announced the completion of Maher al-Bayati, an investigative committee of 300 out of 466 of the Commission during 2016, at a time when the office was able to recover 51 billion dinars, in addition to four million dollars to the state treasury as a result of monitoring the number of irregularities.

Bayati revealed in an interview with «morning» for the preparation of a plan to bring large tracts of land belonging to the Ministry of the investment to be a priority for housing.

The following is the text of the interview:


Q: What is the nature of the work of the office amid the rumors about cases of corruption?

The office according to the law established about it 57 for the year 2004 and his audit and inspection, audit and investigation of administrative and performance evaluation, and there was a package of measures on these issues to monitor and follow up the work of the ministry and evaluating its performance, especially the Ministry of Finance and large is one of the ministries that have direct contact with citizens via the banks, as well as customs, taxes and retirement and others.

All these departments directly related to the citizen as communication between the citizen and employee produces on the track some of the joints of the corruption going on, but it was the Office of the Inspector General a major role in curbing this dangerous scourge plaguing society and institutions, despite potential and limbering financial weaknesses, through disbursements and procedures.


Q: What is the amount of funds that will enable the Office to retrieve it into the treasury of the state year 2016?

It was the responsibility of the office inspection and audit procedures of the preservation of public money and retrieved and was the focus of the office on the amounts recovered physically up to 51 billion and 247 million dinars, in addition to four million dollars and the total recommended retrieve the amounts were approximately 118 billion and 290 million, as well as $ 46 million.

There are amounts inevitably committees modulated in accordance with the law is estimated at 575 billion dinars and 242 million dollars and the sources of these detected amounts were through inspection visits, auditing of all the branches, teams and divisions of the office by complaints and notifications and Akhbarat as it was to be reluctant to pay rents investors and allowances rents Real State Housing loans and non-payment of commercial loans and agricultural initiative, cars, investment and staff advances and deposits and balances in banks manipulated and provincial cabinets and the loss amounts salaried pension and others.


Q: How many investigative committees that worked on it?

As a result of business-related visits Audit and Inspection reach the office to the formation of 466 investigative committee has completed, including 300 of the Commission and 166 under way, along with commissions of inquiry retained from previous years to the large number of work related to the ministry as well as dependence on evaluating institutional performance and individuals, and the work of the Office of the Inspector General does not only lie in inspection, audit and investigation operations, as also working to evaluate the work and performance, which is one of the most important issues that relied on by the office of his family to acquire an overview of the planning of this institution Krkabh performance and standards that are approved by the Office of financial supervision and the competent authorities and we have set and values ​​the performance of the Ministry of Finance institutions in various its business.

We reached the evaluation of corporate performance or individuals to diagnose many phenomena in the Ministry of Finance, whether positive phenomena or negative for the preparation of the plan for the year 2017 to succeed in dealing with the negative phenomena and do some positive phenomena available, and the Finance Ministry runaway success and unrivaled in the conduct of state during lean years (austerity) experienced by Iraq in the financial crisis and the sharp drop in oil prices, which amounted to just over twenty dollars, the size of the high spending as a result of the war.

Financial Reforms were effective despite the severity, considering that Iraq passed financial abundance big spending to austerity through a financial crisis and the reduction of expenses was not gradual, and it was fast level, but the state has succeeded in securing the salaries of its employees, and we still say that the state employees' salaries completely secured in 2017 and the administration Court going plan of financial policy and management about crossing this crisis, and we plan across departments and institutions and formations, as it was prepared to cross from the mechanics of the plan for austerity and procedures for handling the financial crisis.

Our vision in the Ministry of Finance was centered in the following: activation of revenue and this is an important point and reduce spending, we have prepared a study submitted to the Council of Ministers approved many of the clauses in the Committee on Economic Affairs for the activation of revenue related to the state and the ranges of the vessels, medium and long term and at the same time actual austerity measures provide some put sums of money to secure the salaries and the provision of funds to the most important issues such as security and defense, providing war supplies against criminal gangs and ongoing configuration for large edits achieved by our heroes in the armed forces command and the crowd and folk clans and the Peshmerga and at the same time providing a successful and expeditious administration of the subject real financial reform and this is what it takes and raise the ceiling on the financial state about other countries and the international Monetary Fund and the summary of the measures the ministry.

It was the Office of the Inspector General played a major role in this action was not only a sergeant but was supportive and effective cross-assigning departments related to the Ministry of Finance, motivate and procedures relating to officials of the ministry and the planning and monitoring of certain procedures and follow-up a few things related to succeed in financial reforms and activation revenue and reduce expenses.


Q: What is the ministry plans to activate the financial revenues in conjunction with the direction the state to increase revenue and reduce dependence on oil?

State was heavily dependent until 2014, which did not budget on oil revenues and accounted for a higher percentage than the 95 percent, but a silver lining, the financial crisis has contributed to put in front to take some measures to activate the non-oil revenues and lack of dependence on oil, despite conditions security and the war waged by the armed forces against terrorism, it was the Ministry of Finance major contribution through the General Administration of customs and the General Authority for taxes to activate the revenues and the backing of the prime minister and the cabinet approving the application of tariffs and insist on activated to bring in revenue for the state and in 2017 we expect revenues biggest of the year to be 2016 which were non-oil revenues of customs and tax rises from its predecessor in 2015, and put some of the measures related to increasing revenues and certain regulatory procedures relating to coordination with the Office of the Prime Minister, whether security or control or inspection, auditing to reduce them and the office shows some of the data relating to adjust customs evasion and tax matters the income realized from the tax side is much higher than its predecessors because of some of the measures for the control and follow-up.


Q: There are murmurs many points to rampant cases of corruption in customs?

Corruption exists at all times but why do we talk about corruption, rather than talk about the treatment of the phenomena of corruption measures, and customs for decades suffered from corruption, particularly at border crossing points because of the lack of infrastructure, meaning the non-use of mechanization and the absence of customs warehouses, scales gantry according modern requirements and the lack of modern Sunarat, but this ado lots almost observers and following up and taking him some action and raised the coordination with the Supreme Judicial Council, the size of this point and control office for this work is not limited to referral to the judiciary with the knowledge that many of the cases referred to the judiciary are the result of actions customs-related topics and irregularities committed by employees or authorized or faithful, there are also severe disciplinary sanctions as well as the expulsion of the corrupt and those who corrupt them indicate cases of corruption at the ports, it has been expelled many employees.

To speak on this subject many, because Iraq is the main source of his import, considering that the national industry re-work the big focus is on import, and no doubt that this huge number of imports that come without the infrastructure of the dictatorial regime of the border crossings into the number born us some aspects related topics corruption, but deterrent measures continue, and there is coordination with the House of Representatives through the Finance Committee, as no coordination with the presidency of the Council of Ministers through the Prime Minister's Office specialist team.

As we have coordinated with the Supreme Judicial Council, through trial specialist as courts Customs, or inquisitions, yes there is a big deterrent for the corrupt and the corrupt, and there are procedures in accordance with the Customs Law of the goods, in the sense that about this kind of corruption, there are efforts to combat it going upward and the hands that hit an iron on the corrupt and spoilers .


Q: What are the plans of the ministry to invest in real estate as the best state?

The Ministry of Finance has a plan to invest in real estate the state as the best and where the rankings, there are properties belonging to the Ministry of Finance, there are properties belonging to the Municipality of Baghdad and real estate belonging to the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, there Property departments and state institutions and ministries, but the focus is on the Ministry of Finance, and there is a plan, as we do not want the sale of all the properties the state to bring in the money at this time, because it is subject to the laws and regulations and instructions of the integrated plan for land where industrial projects specific controls and procedures for how to sell these lands to their occupants and property confiscated and real estate-related state that consideration.

However, considerable effort and focus is how to create the Real state investment projects undertaken by the state and bring financial returns to the state, and this integrated plan drawn up by the Ministry of Finance, and we have cut many big investment land and the priorities of our work to build housing complexes in Baghdad and the provinces and leave the investment where the requirements of Finance and the Ministry of paragraph on the creation of the earth, but require investment license approvals and the priorities of our residential complexes as well as the construction of industrial complexes.


Q: What are the stomach mechanisms for the advancement of the insurance companies?

The ministry's three insurance companies are the National Insurance Corporation and the Iraqi insurance and re-insurance company, and according to its own perspective, the insurance sector of the most important sectors that need her attention and activate and bring in revenue relating thereto, and there are activating for the advancement of the insurance companies and entered into directly and many quick and channels related to activate The activities of insurance companies follow by the office and we are moving towards the plan which we have previously large and positive results.

There is also activating the topics of insurance and hope activated more during 2017, especially that 2016 saw revenue better than in 2015 and our focus in 2017 is free zones can be activated by the General Authority for Free Zones, and we have many tracts of desert land between the countries want to be free investment zones between the countries and to develop a plan Court during 2017 carried out by the body, and began to secure the provinces until reaching the liberation of the usurped territories Daesh gangs and will be developed through Investment.

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