Judge: legislative forms of counterfeiting between the Penal and the Central Bank

Judge: legislative forms of counterfeiting between the Penal and the Central Bank




Al-qurtas news/Baghdad

Detection of Karrada, judge Imad Abdullah, a legislative forms and conflict between articles 280 to 285 of the Penal Law No. 111 of 1969 which dealt with the offence of fraud, with the Central Bank of Iraq Act (56) of 2004 rate in force (article 52).

Statement issued by the Supreme Judicial Council, "Al-qurtas received news of Abdullah as saying that the conflict between the two is careless detention and imprisonment, where the Penal Code provides for imprisonment in the Central Bank law to imprisonment", stating that "sentence of imprisonment from three months to five years imprisonment sentence of five years to life imprisonment, the term of imprisonment are incompatible with incarceration and punishment, and when referred to the Criminal Court, it applies the Penal Code".

And that article 52 of the law on the Central Bank provides that every person who deliberately cheat and promoting counterfeit as cash or export counterfeit money outside the country, is a felony punishable by a fine of 100 dinars or imprisonment of ten years or both. "

Abdullah said that "Article 280 on the open sentence up to 20 years for each of the falsity or imitated coins or gold or silver or other be warping by lose weight or make it like a real currency as a manufacturing material like Silver".

Abdullah said that "article 281, was punishable by imprisonment for not less than 10 years to 20 years, including both false or diminished securities or banknotes or currency of Iraqi or foreign credit Bank the same penalty shall be applicable to all currencies traded legally or conventionally for transacted or intent promotion."

Abdullah said that "with respect to article 282, a material of tough penalty it contributes to destabilizing the Iraqi currency credit and most of the perpetrators are networks or bands consisting of more than three persons are punishable by life imprisonment."

"Article 283 imprisonment or fine or both for each treated with currency or banknotes out of circulation while summarized article 284 imitation or counterfeit coin of treated after showing false and is one of the most pervasive crimes".

Abdullah noted that "article 285 stipulates imprisonment for 6 months for similar work and circulating false law and custom in Iraq or were traded or known causes or cultural purposes or industrial or commercial.

It concluded that "these acts fall under the economic crimes, the jurisdiction of the Department of economic crime in counterfeiting currencies."

While the legal expert said judge Fathi Al-jawari, that "counterfeiting is an international crime by organized gangs as they need to plan and prior arrangement for implementation by several persons, both as", stating that "the facts show that those involved are of different nationalities, and counterfeiting in the State, and gets in another State".

Some said that "most of the fake groups are the 1000 and 5000 dinars, the paper used officially is not a high-quality rag can professional forgery and assist in the absence of national importance in the audit for low value."

Some shows that "some cases of fraud by people claiming Arab carrying coins from Eastern European countries later found it expired in trading," he said, adding that "here the role of the Central Bank which could issue a tariff in foreign currencies currently supported, in addition to those closed trading."

Some said that "counterfeiting is subject to new and sophisticated methods over time, taking advantage of modern printing as exacerbating the seriousness of the crime and is difficult to detect counterfeit currency by professionals before the ordinary citizen," adding that "the crime was linked to the Group of experts in the art of drawing and painting and calligraphy and drilling down to the promoters before sealing.

And she added that "some counterfeiters who during the currency pump fake models in the market by taking advantage of lack of popularity", adding that "some of the difficulties involved in the work of currency counterfeiters through access to paper the quality of this user in money printing".

"The handmaidens finds large groups may be difficult to forge because the cash price exceeds the cost of the operation", stating that it "contains the line, a wire is integrated in pulp paper extends the view of silver if gluten making currency paper remains flexible to retain its bending and folding.

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