The name of the governor of the bank on the new currency coins raised many questions and surprise about the meaning behind it. 

At the time considered by some officials as a step not returned by Iraq and in violation of the law of the Central Bank demanded an economist to counter the currency and prevent circulation. 

A member of the parliamentary legal committee Saeb Khader told Alsumaria News, "The Legal Committee will work in the next few days to discuss the issue of the existence of the name of the Governor of the Central Bank on the currency of cash that has been printed recently."


Khaddar added that "putting the name of the governor of the Central Bank on the monetary currency is something we did not have previously," adding that "in case there was a violation of the laws in force will work on the Committee to develop treatments for this matter and presented to the House of Representatives to take the necessary measures and legislation." 

For his part, called for a coalition of state law, Abdul Salam al-Maliki, the presidency of the House of Representatives to "drawer this subject on the agenda of the next Council for discussion and hosting the Governor of the Central Bank to know the motives behind this measure," stressing that "the official currency and within the law of the Central Bank in force does not give to the Governor The right to put his name, but only put the word governor and under the signature.

On the other hand, a member of the legal representative MP Sheikh Ali Sheikh Ali told the House of Representatives "to issue a resolution to prevent trading and deal with the Iraqi currency printed recently containing the name of the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, rather than just sign only." 

Economic expert Louay Khatib stressed in a blog post on the social networking site Facebook to withdraw and destroy this new version of the currency and correct this error, "calling for" to be the signature of the Iraqi currency by the Minister of Finance by the title without mentioning the name. "

"The dollar, for example, is signed with the Treasury Secretary and Treasurer's address without mentioning the names, as is the case for the Sterling Sterling signed by the Chief Cashier with the title without mentioning the name." He called on all Iraqi people to "participate in this corrective action to be Beginning of the reform process in all aspects of government work and its contexts. " 

On Sunday, the Central Bank issued its second edition of banknotes for the categories (25,000, 10,000, 1,000, 500 and 250) dinars. He pointed out that the new currency included the writing of the name of the governor instead of signing it in the old version, in line with what is now practiced in Other countries, as amended dates AH and Gregorian dates (1440 H-2018).