Achieve Resafa "open file money laundering force in Iraq

Achieve Resafa "open file money laundering force in Iraq

21-10-2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -

BAGHDAD (Independent) / menopausal Hossam Acommokm .. Revealed Court of achieving Rusafa the most prominent features of money laundering in Iraq, confirmed the existence of two methods to identify him either by moving the suit unusual or inform the regulatory authorities in the central bank, stressing that the amounts resulting from these crimes is through bribery or the work of private banks, money orders, explaining the agreed coordination between them and the Integrity Commission and its proposals for the completion of its work to the fullest and to prosecute those involved.

Despite the passage of 9 years after the law of money laundering, but the judge Acer Abbas Anbuge, Deputy Attorney General at the Court of achieving Rusafa second indicates "not fully aware of in dealing with this type of crime from those specialized, though the street does not have a culture of money laundering," noting that "the need has become necessary to look at the experiences of developed countries that preceded the Iraq long distances to track money laundering crimes."

And money laundering from the point of Anbuge specialist to consider the issues of economic crimes "hits the backbone of the state through its impact on the national economy," returned "combat Qdhaoua administrative corruption and bribery being made a series of interconnected actions come the results of several in that one."

Fertile environment for money laundering

Explains Deputy Attorney General Court of achieving Rusafa / second fertile environment that breeds in money laundering that "most of the crimes live on private banks and companies hawala either beneficiaries understand the categories of employees state departments or contractors," explaining that "these crimes require the presence of money illegally, and that the offender can not dispose of them for easy identification by the regulatory authorities and therefore does not inevitable cleaned with a series of interrelated processes in order to be usable. "

In response to a question about more crimes, money laundering prevalent in the country, according Anbuge as "those resulting from manipulation of banking where there are before the courts claims several this subject," مستطردا say that "certain destination as if the people were normal or company is filing letters of guarantee at the Bank of my family who in turn pulls part of the amounts deposited in the calculation of a person linked to it inside Iraq and then be pulled back under the instrument and puts it in the company of remittances internal as several people, "and added," Here begins the process of cleaning the money because the beneficiaries withdrawn and deposited by others to be interrupted chain and money laundering completed by repeating this process for about seven times. "

Through the detection of crime

And methods of detecting crime Male Alapenneka that "Iraq still depends on two methods only; first by investigating the case unusual crime of treason Municipality, and the percentages of success is very high, by moving the aggrieved complaint on the bank due to lack traced back to his money and is follow the movement of the account based on the dates of withdrawal amounts, "pointing out that" The second way is through the Office of money laundering at the central bank, a specialist follow the movement of funds in and out of Iraq as well as transfers between banks, "he said, adding that" the office authority to set up committees to look at company records civil private remittances and when observed any suspicious movement watched carefully and ask the Court to investigate specialized economic issues moving the complaint against the parties. "

Anbuge cautioned that "after the establishment of the proceedings begin Economic Crime Directorate collects information on the case before it and the Office of laundering money for the central bank to provide the court documents and the movement of money

In order to be traced, "adding that he" can not take action against any of the parties to the case, but the availability of enough evidence, or confirms the existence of the process of money laundering, "noting that" the Directorate of Economic Crime seeks in a period of gathering evidence to transplant elements inside the parties to the case or buy suspicious money, "destined" to reach success rate crime for the second case by 50%. "

Difficulties in gathering evidence

According Anbuge the "difficulties of the work of actors Althakikh in the crimes of money laundering is that construction contracts involving the use of the money suspicious كعمولات usually expect out of Iraq with foreign countries, so it is difficult to get to the crime, explaining that" the beneficiary of the commission is a third party needs to be cleaned Here, we have become crimes; first and second corruption of money laundering arising from corruption. "

He hopes Anbuge to "convert the partition specialist for money laundering of the economic crime to the Directorate of independent," and expressed his belief that "with the presence of the Integrity Commission to curb corruption comes the need is necessary to find another device keeps track of money caused him and recovered to be the Directorate-equipped staff investigators specializing be briefed on the experiences of Foreign Affairs in order to give him extensive experience to help him in completing his duties functional, "stressing that" the work of the Directorate if the have been created will be in coordination with the Commission on Public Integrity, which would facilitate a lot of obstacles that stand before us, because we سنمتلك from which information about the money to be reached " .

He Anbuge that "the fight against corruption requires a number of important measures which enhances our demand for finding this directorate wide powers," expressing regret for "not امتلاكنا right at the present time firing orders to the Central Bank in order to form committees to monitor the work and recording banking companies that send بسجلاتها to

It is possible that the Bank is exposed to bleaching or change, in the time required to be sent to the supervisory teams of these companies to audit procedures on the job site. "

The need for modern means to track down the culprits

In turn, what they saw as observers attributed the difficulty of detecting money laundering to malfunction executive regard to the application of proof procedures, demanding the use of modern methods to reach the perpetrators of such crimes.

The Pedrabd reported Sattar Muhammad Integrity investigative judge that "the crimes of money laundering requires provable accuracy and effort, progress and development in the procedures associated with the existence of a suitable atmosphere of stability at all levels in the country."

He said Mohammed, "there is a difficulty in the work of those investigative linked disorder executive is proving the deposit amount that exposure to washing and prosecution of capital suspicious," at present "to reduce the crime to identify more on the means of proof modern through participation in external courses and find out what reached by the developed world in the field of money laundering, there are those who resort to eavesdropping devices and sophisticated computer control and GPS (GPS) ", stressing" the need that there should be cooperation between the specialized and private banks and not to rush to open it because the capital of corruption find an area in which he away from its counterpart government . "

And reduces the integrity of the judge "the importance of the contribution of banking offices in the money laundering operations because it is currently situated under highly controlled and that most of these cases, the private banks that issue after 2003 exceeded the 25 banks due to economic and trade openness."

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