Rulings in favor of corrupt
Adnan Hussein



"Integrity is escalating its actions and is preparing to overthrow corrupt governors and officials." This was a headline in yesterday's edition, a headline for a report that promises to bring senior government officials to justice for administrative and financial corruption.

Financial and administrative corruption is a crime in all laws. It is a big crime because its victims are all members of society, not a single individual or a small group.

Administrative and financial corruption is an offense against honor and a vehicle because it involves theft of public and private money, breach of trust and duty, And the violation of the limits of public and private office and powers, and the violation of the rights of others .. and other criminal acts punishable by the laws of developed and backward countries alike, as well as the customs of developed and backward societies.

Since the political parties of Islam seized the country's resources for more than ten years now, administrative and financial corruption has become a general phenomenon that has not been deterred by party leaders, clerics, politicians, ministers, deputy ministers, ambassadors, directors of institutions, departments, governors, provincial council members and officers. Army, police and security .... to reach employees and employees at the lowest administrative level in the country, as well as businessmen, traders, bankers, brokers, etc., until administrative and financial corruption became the practice of the owner of the most often over-expansion.

The periodic reports of the Integrity Commission and its statements confirm this .. But what amazes me now is the impunity of the perpetrators of administrative corruption offenses of the penalty required or necessary, which includes imprisonment, as well as the recovery of looted money.

In a statement yesterday, the Integrity Commission announced that the Maysan Criminal Court issued a judgment against the director of Al-Rasheed Bank (Governmental), the University of Maysan, serving one year imprisonment under the provisions of Article 340 of the Penal Code. The convicted manager stole it or acted on it.

The source of the confusion in this declaration is not only the lenient sentence (one year while article 340 of the Penal Code allows punishment in such a case for up to seven years imprisonment), but also in the statement that the court decided not to release the convictions unless Pay the amount to the bank where she worked as a manager!

I think that a ruling of this kind does not constitute a deterrent to the perpetrators of administrative and financial corruption.

Now, every employee can devour whatever he wants. If his order is revealed, he will have a simple ruling, such as ruling on the manager of the bank, accompanied by the condition of returning the stolen money, and this is not a difficult condition, and he will steal hundreds of millions of dinars to buy real estate or invest in profitable business. The amount of misappropriated wealth that has doubled as a result of its investment.

Without the rigidity of the verdicts against the corrupt, there is no hope of combating administrative and financial corruption.

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