Cabinet approves law on graft and asks officials "Where do you get this?"

Cabinet approves law on graft and asks officials "Where do you get this?"

Political Since 2017-08-13 at 19:58 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad Mawazine News
The Council of Ministers approved the law on graft, according to which the Integrity Commission can prosecute the corrupt and ask them about the gross enrichment and ask the question "where do you get this", while this law requires institutions and banks to disclose the assets and accounts of officials under suspicion.
The spokesman of the Information Office Saad al-Hadithi said in a statement received / Mawazine News / copy of the adoption of this law came "to find an integrated legal system to fight corruption."
He explained that the adoption of this law reflects the "continuing government in the fight against corruption and cut off its nutrients and close its competitors and find an effective mechanism to reduce this serious scourge that threatens the Iraqi economy and the structure of the state" and represents "an update of the system of fighting legislative and procedural corruption and to complete the paths of government action guarantor For transparency and control and protection of public funds and to prevent the possibility of exploiting the job position in achieving or benefiting from the illicit gain to achieve personal benefits and to put those who take advantage of their jobs in illicit enrichment at the expense of public funds under the responsibility of accountability The legal and judicial prosecution has Oqurmcil ministers project graft law. "
Under this Law, he shall make an unlawful gain "of any money received by the person charged to a public service by reason of acts, influence, conditions of his position or position or because of the exploitation of any of that."
As well as illegal gain "any money obtained by any natural or legal person through his complicity with any person charged with public service."
As well as "everything that the taxpayer did not mention in the form of the financial disclosure submitted to him or his report and did not prove to him a legitimate source." He also affirms that the law "Any increase that arises due to the charge of the general service or his minor children or who is a guardian or guardian or Valuable to them when they are disproportionate to their resources and unjustified "is an illegal gain that entails asking" Where do you get this?
The head of the Integrity Commission, Hassan al-Yasiri, announced in a television interview on the program the next day presented by the media Mohammed al-Ghazi on Al-Sharqiya News that he submitted the draft law on illegal graft to the Council of Ministers, indicating that the adoption of this law besieged the corrupt and undermine the corruption, theft and looting and institutions need to cooperate with the integrity .
The deputies demanded that this law be retroactive and ask corrupt officials who seized houses, farms, land and money in the past years and pursued them to oblige institutions that refrained from presenting data on them revealed to the Integrity Commission to open new investigations on them.


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