Office of Abadi reveals the referral of hundreds of integrity issues of corruption

The total investigation of files related to financial and administrative corruption during the four years of the current government lasted more than 5000 people with different positions and degrees of employment, said Saad al-Hadithi, a spokesman for Prime Minister's Office Haider al-Abadi.

Al-Hadithi told Ashqaf News that "the statistics confirm that the competent authorities during the life of the current government until the end of last July conducted investigations with about 5300 officials at the level of director general or a deputy minister or adviser or minister or the head of a provincial council or governor or member of an independent body"

He pointed out that "1076 accused have been referred to the judiciary and issued judgments against 314 convicted," saying that "the orders of recruitment included 2208 accused, while issued arrest warrants against 800 others."

Abadi's media office announced on Tuesday that it had referred senior officials to the Integrity Commission to investigate files of corruption.

The central and southern governorates of Iraq are witnessing widespread protests against the deterioration of the service and living conditions, the spread of financial and administrative corruption and the high rate of unemployment within the society, prompting the government to take a series of urgent measures to meet the demands of demonstrators.

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