Maliki denies interfering in the case of the Central Bank and the parliament holds ministers of education, health and youth
Baghdad - Al-Hayat
Friday, October 26, 2012
As they prepare to Iraqi parliamentary Integrity Committee to call the ministers of education, health and young people and ask them about the failure in the management of their ministries, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, not government intervention in the case of the sacking of director of the Central Bank Sinan Shabibi.
The MP said Talal Zobaie told «life» that the Integrity Committee «is preparing to host the Ministers of Education and Health, Youth and Sports to find out the failures of some institutions and ministries and failing to heed the needs of citizens.
He pointed out that «host Education Minister Mohammad Tamim, health Majid Hamad Amin, the Minister of Youth and Sports Jassim Mohammed Jaafar does not necessarily mean questioning and put them in the box of the accused, but to illustrate what happens in institutions classified as lists circuit with too much administrative corruption or financial or institutions lagging . After ending the host three ministers there are new lists of senior state officials may be questioned if proven negligence in the performance of the tasks assigned to them.
The head of the Integrity Committee Bahaa al-Araji, announced his intention to grill some ministers.
Moreover, said a source in the Integrity Committee's »life» that «the Commission to continue with the Integrity Commission dealing with the follow-up and monitor the performance of staff in government departments to prevent the spread of financial and administrative corruption.
On the issue of Central Bank Governor Sinan al-Shabibi said that «the prime minister asked our committee to up Shabibi file and carefully studied again to find out the causes of the recent crisis.
The source added that stressed the anonymity that «the issuance of an arrest warrant for al-Shabibi is not based on real evidence to prove his involvement in corruption cases or currency smuggling or fluctuating dollar exchange rate, noting that the Prime Minister had not seen in the form of direct warrants issued against him» .
He added that «file the Governor of the Central Bank will carry many surprises could topple government officials to have the upper hand in determining the policy of the bank. He pointed out that «primitives for Shabibi file received by the Integrity Commission, amid severe reservation, hoping to be studied again accurately as well as the dispatch of some members of the committee to Shabibi located outside of Iraq to see the merits of it and match them with primitives available to us.
He added that «the issue of the central bank is more political than technical, administrative, and the coming days will reveal the truth of the matter.
Al-Maliki said the day before yesterday that his government had nothing to do with the issue of the sacking of the Governor of the Central Bank and the issuance of the arrest decision. [THIS GUY IS UN-BELIEVABLE... HE IS THE HEAD OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH/GOI AND THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THE POWER TO HAVE DONE THIS... BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THE COMMITTEE THAT WAS APPOINTED BY NUJAIFI TO LOOK INTO THE FILE OF THE CBI WAS PUSHED ASIDE AND MALIKI'S CRONIES/COMMITTEE TOOK OVER THE FILE AND USED A LOOPHOLE IN THE LAW TO DISMISS SHABIBI... MALIKI's HANDS ARE COVERED IN BLOOD...]
Maliki said through the website to his press office: «It is no secret that many differences with the government of Directors of the Central Bank and has serious observations on a lot of activity and monetary policy and so on, but the latest case were not connected government.
He pointed out that «the turmoil that occurred in the price of the Iraqi currency to stimulate many regulators to investigate the activity of the central bank, including the method of sale of hard currency, banking, stock exchange and other».
He added: «It seems that the investigation, which lasted more than a month ended up issuing a report carries Central Bank Governor Dr Sinan Shabibi and others in the bank responsibility.
He stressed that «the Commission mandated by Parliament raised its report to the President, Mr. Osama Najafi and the Chairman of the Committee to the Integrity Commission directly without the government. Based on this report and the documents relied upon by, the Commission's report is filed with the report of the Parliamentary Committee to the Court of Special Investigation integrity issues in the Supreme Judicial Council and the Court issued an arrest warrant on the bank governor and a number of his staff for interrogation.
The central story Governor Sinan al-Shabibi said in previous statements that «confident that an independent Iraqi judiciary» and Sancefh, pointing out that he would return «to Baghdad soon to appear in court.