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    US judiciary pursues drug companies accused of funding "Mehdi Army

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    Post by Rocky Sat 21 Oct 2017, 2:10 am

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     Translation / Hamid Ahmed 

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dozens of families of US soldiers killed or wounded during the war after the US-led invasion have sued several US and European drug and medical supplies for allegedly supplying anti-US arms to the US military through bribes and corruption deals with Iraqi health officials. For the period between 2004 and 2013 in order to win processing contracts where the ministry was then managed by elements of the Mahdi Army.
    The lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Washington against a number of the largest names of pharmaceutical and medical supplies companies, including G-E Health Care, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Roche Holdings Inc. Claimed that these companies routinely used to give bribes and financial grants to officials of the Iraqi Ministry of Health through their local agents in the country. 
    The lawsuit claims that officials in the Iraqi Ministry of Health were in turn remitting the amounts they receive from these bribes to finance factions that carried out attacks against US forces in Iraq that caused the killing and wounding of many of them. 
    After the US invasion in 2003, Iraq's spending on health care doubled dramatically, and after the Ministry of Health budget during the last year of Saddam Hussein's rule was $ 16 million, it rose to nearly $ 1 billion in 2004.
    Western firms eager to pay bribes to win contracts in the Iraqi market were registered as commissions and free gifts, amounting to 20 percent of the value of contracts signed by health ministry officials, according to the lawsuit. 
    Another way that the defendants used to deliver these illegal funds is to add language phrases in the text of the contract in which they pledge to provide after sales support and services to the product they sold, where they are financed by giving money to their local agents. 
    "In fact, such services are bogus services and they are included only to create a means of trivial financing that may be used by local agents to pass commissions to corrupt officials in the ministry," the lawsuit said. 
    The charge filed by the prosecution is that these companies and through financial transactions helped and supported the armed factions and thus violated the US anti-terrorism law.
    For its part, the company responded to the lawsuit in a statement stating that "the company categorically denies any breach." G-A said in a statement that "it is reviewing the allegations in the lawsuit." 
    A spokeswoman for Roche Holdings said the company had not yet heard of the lawsuit and declined to comment. 
    In 2005, the Ministry of Health became under the control of people loyal to the Mehdi Army, which was opposed to the US presence in Iraq, killing and wounding hundreds of US troops during the period of resistance that lasted for years after the US invasion.
    "The defendants did not intend, through their free gifts to the Kimadia Foundation, to import and market medicines and medical supplies of the Ministry of Health in Iraq to serve any legitimate medical or charitable purpose." It was widely known that the Ministry of Health , At the time, is more of a terrorist organization than a legitimate health institution, and no firm can see the Ministry of Health as an appropriate charity. " 
    In late August 2007, a warning report issued by the US Embassy in Baghdad and published in the media accusing the Ministry of Health of selling the ministry's equipment on the black market and that elements of the Mahdi Army controlled it.
    Months before the embassy report, Stratfor International Intelligence said that US forces in Iraq had arrested the then undersecretary of health for "selling medical supplies and equipment for millions of dollars that could eventually go to finance armed militias." 
    "We believe the evidence will reveal that when the Mehdi Army controlled the Iraqi Ministry of Health, the defendant companies continued to pay the same bribes that they provided to ministry officials during Saddam Hussein's rule, but the difference is that these bribes," said Ryan Sparashino, a prosecutor for the case. And corruption deals have become bigger. " 
    A US attorney general from various judicial institutions in Washington spent thousands of hours investigating and analyzing hundreds of transactions and remittances between the companies and the Ministry of Health between 2004 and 2013.
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