MP Kazem al-Sayadi said on Thursday that three-quarters of the former Iraqi army personnel abroad are wanted for the judiciary, calling for the need to limit the clause on the reward for the end of service to members and officers of the former Iraqi army residing in the country only.

"Some laws passed with a consensus will to pass some other wills to some political blocs, such as giving rights to Saddam's Fedayeen and the oppressive regimes of the former regime," al-Sayadi said in an interview with Alsumaria News. 


"He called for the separation of the former army service between the poor and the criminal and the murderer and be special to those who reside in Iraq and be an Iraqi full of eligibility and not 24 hours takes the state funds and is abroad and lays it and conspires on it."

"We have not agreed to this because of other wills," Sayadi said, adding that "three-quarters of those from the former Iraqi army abroad are wanted for the Iraqi judiciary, and some of them are conspiring against Iraq."

Al-Sayadi expressed his hope that "when the instructions for the implementation of the budget by the Ministry of Finance to be applied to members of the army of those who are inside Iraq."

On 15 December 2018, a member of the parliamentary finance committee, MP Ahmed Mazhar, revealed the inclusion of a 10 million dinar end of service bonus for former army employees in the budget.