Are the Iraqi public prosecutor can refund contraband?

Are the Iraqi public prosecutor can refund contraband?

February 23, 2016

Mohammad Rahim night / Baghdad

Redemption "smuggled money" an important file back of the facade of political and economic events in Iraq again, but in spite of the formation of the government for a number of committees in previous years but did not mention any amount recovered.

Where he divided the money smuggled into two types: the first period before 2003 and subject to the Department of Finance and economic pursuits in the AJC's estimated $ 40 billion, and the second for the funds obtained through corruption and illegal acts after 2003, which requires recoverable issuing judicial decisions with international memoranda or agreements bilateral between Iraq and other countries, which is estimated at more than $ 200 billion.

He revealed for the economic and investment commission member of the parliamentary Nora Albjara about the presence of more than a committee formed by the Council of Ministers to follow the smuggled money, but to no avail, and said that "the central bank announced some time ago that there is money in foreign banks belonging to the former regime an estimated $ 8 billion in foreign banks these amounts were restored, but do not know the amounts recovered so far and this is a very anonymous. "

She explained Albjara's night, "escaped from these funds have other nationalities and Iraqi law can not retrieve these funds because the other countries of nationality will maintain them."

Iraq is not a member of the International Criminal Court, for this is not issuing any decision by the court to recover these funds.

"United States of America can help Iraq to reach the top corrupt and hold them accountable," said Chairman of the Parliamentary Integrity Talal Zobaie, confirmed the night's "The committee is determined to recover funds smuggled out of Iraq, and has an extensive and comprehensive plan."

According to a member of the Finance Committee, the money smuggled out of the country, mostly by armament contracts, currency and money laundering auction. A member of the Finance Committee MP Massoud Rostam's night, that "money smuggled out of the country by the size of the Commission estimates estimated at almost $ 200 billion over the past years."

As vice president of the Integrity Commission Ezzat Tawfiq's night, "said the main problem is the lack of information and poor coordination with the concerned authorities, revealed the existence of 37 file is ready with the Integrity Commission for the looted money in some countries that do not cooperate with Iraq to return the money."

For its part, he indicated Judge Hana Ali Fayyad, a member of the public prosecutor that "the public prosecutor to follow up and recover funds contraband."

While the central bank governor said on the Keywords that "the central bank over the past years did not pay much attention to this issue because there is no obstacle to control the movement of funds after conversion out of Iraq."

Hana Ali Fayyad had been "provisions of the reserve funds and the people involved with corruption and to send those provisions of the countries where ever online version."