Investigation committees open files of corruption to 3 ministers and 289 general managers and a member of the provincial councils



27/9/2017

Baghdad / Mohammed Sabah

An initial investigation carried out by subcommittees of the tripartite commission charged with combating corruption led to the discovery of about 50,000 space objects in the Ministry of Defense. These files are due to be referred to the judiciary within the next two weeks.

The Parliamentary Integrity Committee says that an international team distributed on several committees to follow up and review the files and contracts of all Iraqi ministries and verified.

The Committee also revealed that new arrest warrants were being issued against (3) current ministers, 42 provincial council members, 247 general managers and a new group of governors.

The head of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee Talal Al-Zobaie said in an interview with Al-Mada that "new arrest warrants will soon be issued against three current ministers, 42 members of the provincial councils and 247 general managers and a new group of conservatives."

"The investigations carried out by the Tripartite Commission (including the Integrity Commission, the Integrity Commission and the Judicial Council), which work in cooperation with the UN Panel and American experts, have found facts that prove the involvement of these officials in financial and administrative corruption cases.

A few months ago, the Government set up an investigative committee to review all contracts concluded by previous governments, consisting of the Supreme Judicial Council, the Integrity Commission and the Integrity Commission, in cooperation with United Nations and US experts, to scrutinize all contracts concluded by previous governments.

Zobaie added that "the Tripartite Commission is continuing to review all files and contracts concluded by state institutions since 2003 to be audited in order to reach the scourge of public money," stressing that "the audits produced positive results to prosecute some of the accused."

In February, Al-Madaa revealed that a UN team had assisted seven government, parliamentary and judicial committees in working to recover the smuggled Iraqi funds by conducting surveys of all files related to the entry and exit of funds within two years.

These committees began reviewing 650 files of previous contracts, through which the international team, in conjunction with the tripartite committee, monitored many irregularities, resulting in the issuance of arrest warrants against five former and current governors and more than 18 former and current ministers or those with the rank of minister.

The MP from the Union of Iraqi forces that "the Parliamentary Integrity Committee also detected a lot of irregularities in the contracts of the Ministries of Defense and Interior as well as in all provinces through the intersection of information obtained from the sub-committees with reports prepared by the Office of Financial Supervision," noting that " I mentioned the existence of financial and administrative violations in many institutions. "

He added that "among the most important files in which we have achieved the file of astronauts in the Ministry of Defense, which proved the investigations the validity of the claims of Prime Minister Haider Abadi, which he talked about previously," stressing that "the presence of large numbers of astronauts in the Ministry of Defense may be less or more than fifty thousand space "He said.

The Prime Minister Haider Abadi, has revealed, in a speech in the House of Representatives in 2014, the government's monitoring of about 50 thousand imaginary names (astronauts) to associate in the Ministry of Defense, "noting that" these grades have been canceled. "

The Chairman of the Committee on Parliamentary Integrity, that his committee "formed subcommittees to monitor all ministries through the audit of files and contracts concluded over the past years and found the existence of breaches and financial irregularities in many files and contracts," noting that during the next two weeks will be issued by the Committee a schedule of these files and contracts that will be Referred to the judiciary.

These investigations also included the file of funds for the return of displaced people in the provinces of Nineveh, Salah al-Din and Anbar, where significant financial irregularities were identified. Al-Zobaie confirmed that the information obtained by his committee "will be matched with the reports of the Office of Financial Supervision, .
MP Zobaie pointed out that "the subcommittees of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee began to conduct investigations on the work of the House of Representatives on the issue of restoration of Hall (3) as well as communications and invoices given to the deputies as well as to some employees," asserting the existence of "legal violations in these files, Before some staff in the House. "

MP Zobaie said that "parliamentary integrity asked the Office of Financial Supervision to provide reports on the funds paid on these projects, including restoration of Hall No. 3 and the file of communications in the House of Representatives from mobile phones and the Internet," noting that "the reports of the Office of Financial Supervision will determine the quality of these violations Then it is intersected with the information we have available in all the files and information we have. "

The head of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee on the work of the UN team in the follow-up corruption files, saying that "their work is coordinated and limited to provide advice and assistance in how to conduct investigations," stressing that "distributed to several teams to follow up and review the files of all Iraqi ministries."

He continued that "all arrest warrants against the governors and a number of ministers and directors-general was because of these investigations, which lasted a large number of contracts and files concluded in previous governments."

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