Fact-Finding committee: Influential people plotted burning of ballot boxes
Head of Iraqi Parliamentary Fact-Finding Committee Adel Nouri
The cause of fire that broke out at a warehouse belonging to High Electoral Committee (HEC) at Al Rusafa district in Baghdad, which contained ballot boxes has been revealed according to Iraqi Parliament's fact-finding committee.
Head of Iraqi Parliamentary Fact-Finding Committee Adel Nouri stressed his committee submitted information, which he described as important to the committee tasked with investigating the fire that broke out at HEC's warehouses in Al Rusafa.
Nouri pointed out that his committee gathered vital information about the cause of the fire and the parties involved in it.
He explained that his committee is working with great efforts in coordination with the government committee formed to investigate the causes of the fire, underlining that his committee has direct contact with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi in this regard, noting that his committee provided important information about the incident to the government committee.
He underscored that the joint investigative committee has reached important and advanced results in the causes of the fire and the parties involved in it, adding that the investigations led to the arrest of a group of perpetrators and suspects of the fire who are among the influential people in Iraq.
Nouri stressed the sensitivity of the subject and its direct impact on the political process prevented the committee from disclosing the details, including names or entities involved in the incident, until the completion of the investigation.
He indicated that some parties who were involved in the Parliamentary elections had committed fraud in some provinces and to cover-up their crime they attempted to burn ballot boxes, especially after failing to win seats in the parliament.
Fraud have occurred in the elections with the aim of supporting militias to gain parliamentary seats and manipulate the will of the Iraqis, adding that the attempt to burn ballot boxes is a cover-up of the fraud that have been committed, according to observers.
Observers told The Baghdad Post that once the parliamentary fact-finding committee has completed its work, the details of its findings and shocking facts about those who rigged the elections and planned the burning of ballot boxes will be revealed, adding that all evidence lead to Iran and its agents in Iraq.
The Parliamentary elections was marked by record low turnout. It was the first since Iraq declared victory over the ISIS group and the fourth since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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