An upcoming operation of the Anti-Corruption Commission to remove 200 corrupt personalities

[size=52]An upcoming operation of the Anti-Corruption Commission to remove 200 corrupt personalities[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Muhammed Sabah[/size]
[size=45]The Anti-Corruption Committee headed by Major General Ahmed Abu Ragheef plans to hunt down more than (200) influential political figures, some of whom are first-class leaders. Arrest decisions will be ready to pursue these wanted persons between mid-July and next August.[/size]
[size=45]Sources with knowledge of the government committee's moves expect that the arrest of these large heads will be accompanied by a large reaction, which may cause security chaos on the street, which will push the postponement of the early parliamentary elections until April 2022.[/size]
[size=45]An informed political source, who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the situation and information, said in a statement to (Al-Mada) that the Anti-Corruption Committee led by Major General Ahmed Abu Ragheef plans to chase more than (200) personalities accused of corruption, indicating that there are personalities among those wanted who have already opened Their files were closed for unknown reasons.[/size]
[size=45]At the end of August 2020, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi formed a permanent committee to investigate corruption cases and operations headed by Lieutenant-General Ahmed Abu Ragheef, and assigned the Counter-Terrorism Service to implement the decisions issued by this committee.[/size]
[size=45]The source speculates that “the files of the wanted persons will be opened between the middle of this month of July and the middle of next August,” describing this period as a coup against corruption by opening heavy files that are steeped in financial and administrative corruption.[/size]
[size=45]And he continues, "Half of those personalities (about a hundred) senior leaders will be chased in the coming days," believing that this will generate a reaction against these decisions, which may push the postponement of the early elections to April 2022.[/size]
[size=45]Since the formation of the committee by the prime minister last August, arrest warrants have been issued against a large number of political and administrative figures, including the head of the al-Hal Party, Jamal al-Karbouli, after he assigned the anti-terrorism agency to implement the decisions issued by the committee.[/size]
[size=45]The corruption that Iraq witnessed is very large, and the money that was wasted ranges between three hundred and four hundred billion dollars, meaning that a large number of Iraqi politicians have already been involved in corruption deals.[/size]
[size=45]The source added that “the targeting of wanted persons will be for extraordinary personalities, which is expected to leave their mass base on the street, confusing the situation and pushing to change the date of the elections,” noting that the possibilities are open to a number of options.[/size]
[size=45]In mid-February, the security forces arrested businessman Baha Alaa Abdul Razzaq Al-Jourani, because of his accusation of corruption in accordance with Resolution (310 BC), on a corruption case in the Ministry of Industry run by the minister affiliated with the Karabilah, Manhal Aziz Al-Khabbaz.[/size]
[size=45]The source pointed out that “the most prominent files that will be opened, including the file of the fall of the city of Mosul in the hands of the terrorist organization ISIS, the file of killing protesters, and issues related to wasting money and exploiting positions,” adding that there are files that will appear in a striking way, such as security files that mean the involvement of influential figures. A security concern concerned with corruption and other files.”[/size]
[size=45]And last December, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi vowed to pursue all the corrupt in order to achieve the financial reforms he called for, stressing that his government will reveal “major facts” regarding corruption in the year 2021.[/size]
[size=45]In turn, Saleh Mahdi al-Hamashi, an expert in economic affairs, considered in a statement to (Al-Mada) that the extent of rampant corruption in the Iraqi state is greater than the capabilities of the Anti-Corruption Committee, indicating that corruption exists even in the Council of Ministers and all or most of the institutions.[/size]
[size=45]Successive Iraqi governments have spent since 2003, amounts estimated at one thousand trillion, including the budgets of the operational and investment ministries, where huge funds were wasted in contracting cases, as well as corruption that was rampant in most of the contracts contracted by these ministries and governorates, in which some of the political blocs were involved. .[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hamashi believes that “fighting corruption in Iraq requires international assistance because of the presence of large and influential mafias that have become infiltrated in all joints of the state, run by influential political entities,” believing that the Anti-Corruption Committee can limit corruption, not eliminate it.[/size]
[size=45]Efforts to eradicate corruption require electronically converting all transactions of citizens and employees to get rid of the process of direct communication between the citizen and the employee, in addition to the fact that corruption operations also come from imports, which annually amount to more than (50) billion dollars, so it is assumed that the tax aspect should be activated on these Incoming goods whose value is between eight to ten billion dollars, while the natural reality of the state does not exceed two billion dollars, and therefore there is a difference of six billion dollars.[/size]
[size=45]The economic expert adds that, "Despite the formation of the government committee, corruption is growing and growing and no force can stop it," noting that there is news that we hear about, and we have not seen the arrest of those accused of financial and administrative corruption.[/size]
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