Integrity: to obtain assurances from Kuwait and Britain and America to recover huge funds looted by

Integrity: to obtain assurances from Kuwait and Britain and America to recover huge funds looted by corrupt



Sunday, September 15 / September 2013 13:03

[Baghdad - where]

Integrity Commission announced that Iraq's access to comforting assurances from Kuwait, Britain and the United States to cooperate in the implementation of the [59] file to retrieve huge amounts of money looted by corrupt and fled abroad and some of them settled in those countries.

A statement of the Agency has received all of Iraq [where] a copy of it on its head Alaa Jawad Hameed, who headed the Iraqi delegation in the meetings of the third session of the Arab Forum for a refund to say, "We offered before meeting in London of representatives of Arab governments and the Middle East, North Africa and eight States and civil society organizations Details of those files that have completed all legal procedures and gained rulings become final. "

The head of the Integrity Commission for "optimism that respond to other countries of the claims of Iraq recover its money on those files, which for some ministers and senior officials, former or files that will be completed later by the Department of recovery in the Commission in cooperation with the departments of other ministries and departments concerned Iraqi thereon and international bodies with International relationship as the police [Interpol]. "

He stressed that "[59] file represent a fraction compared to the hundreds of crimes acquisition of public money committed by through the exploitation of the powers of their office job, but counting this figure large in comparison old section recovery in the body, which began its tasks since only months after its formation under the law of the force number [ 30] of the end of 2011, "noting that" Partition Recovery, which canceled the previous administration of the body, for unknown reasons did not perform any file recovery, despite the issuance of the provisions of several in the years 2005 and 2007 against the convicts senior, such as the Minister of Electricity former Ayham al-Samarrai and Defense Minister former Hazem Shaalan and Minister of Commerce Former Sudanese farmers and others. "

Jawad explained that "there is significant currently being coordinated with Jordan and Lebanon regarding the recovery of looted Iraqi funds and put their names in several countries during the London meetings as polarized states of looted funds, including the United Arab Emirates, which have broad areas of operation of such funds."

He pointed out that "the Iraqi delegation suggested that the members of the Arab Forum for a refund, countries and organizations represented at the crossroads of London that the organization Transparency International to prepare an inventory and statistically similar to its reports on the levels of corruption in countries around the world reveal the names of countries incubator funds looted which allows thieves investment and operation of such funds within its territory. "

The head of the Integrity Commission that "the proposals and interventions revealed that many of the countries of the polarized looted Learn to the money but ignores the question of illegitimacy and defend in defense to justify the investment on its soil as a source of profits and taxes generated from commercial movement."

He cited the head of the Integrity Commission in this regard, "the failure of both Tunisia and Libya recover anything from their money looted, despite their large in this area," pointing out that "Egypt gone to great success through the Attorney General to do to hold a judicial able through access to accounts Speaker System former and his followers in banks in Switzerland, which authorities refused to respond to that effort on the pretext that the prosecutor in Egypt has not appointed within the guidelines of fundamentalism. "

He noted that "one of the obstacles set by some countries, the incubator of looted funds is a matter of proving the relationship between the money that is referred to in the file recovery and the money deposited in the banks."

The head of the Integrity Commission, "the great satisfaction of the atmosphere that prevailed in the meetings in London, where positions of all the states with calls for Iraq to build a system prudent to expose and reveal states receiving money stolen and people were convicted in their own countries to the provisions concerning corruption offenses," stressing that "this effort despite being morally in its infancy the first, but he form an embarrassment to countries spammed the money stolen and the thieves convicted, "stressing that" the process of shaming will lead later to make a lot of Albadan reconsider the receiving of money stolen in order to preserve its reputation among nations and in anticipation of the sanctions and make mischief apprehensive about Admastaadad any external party which leads to trapping crimes of corruption within the national territory and facilitate tracing and prosecution procedures under local laws. "

He continued, "Ban positions totalitarian critical to host some of the countries of the money looted and harboring thieves have created a trend years to develop a new term is the name of the money looted a term [restore the dignity of peoples] and that the emergence of this phrase was a reflection of the general feeling that the stolen money and managed to sneak him into another country provides him live well and profits from the operation of the money looted but robbed people of their dignity and denied rights and the poor citizen of the opportunity to live and became opinion that the question of recovery does not mean the physical aspect goal of money by, but the restoration of the dignity of citizens through the activation of the legal proceedings against those who exceed it if the thief or the country incubator for money looted . "

He concluded Chief of integrity "that placed the money looted and the issue of recovery is no longer a national issue, but the fact an international not confined yard move towards them as part of the Integrity Commission, but must be put firmly on the agenda of any official meetings are held at the presidential level or government or parliament or ministerial with their counterparts in countries that settle in the territory convicted of crimes of corruption or invest money looted and considered a condition that affects the nature of the relations between the two countries. "is over.

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