Factions control government lands in Mosul and buy real estate at 10% of their original prices

[size=52]Factions control government lands in Mosul and buy real estate at 10% of their original prices[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Armed factions control 3 towns in Nineveh and several neighborhoods within the governorate center, Mosul. In those areas, these groups control the administrative decision and acquire governmental and civil land and real estate. The forms of acquisition are divided into several ways: squatting, buying government lands at prices up to 10% of their basic value, and intimidating residents to sell their homes at half the real price.[/size]
[size=45]These groups are opening new residential neighborhoods and bringing residents from scattered villages in an attempt to change the demographics, according to what politicians there say. About two thousand pictures of Iranian leaders are spread in the province.[/size]
[size=45]According to political sources in Mosul, the armed factions, some of which claim to be affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, are present in 3 large towns: Nineveh Plain, Sinjar, and Tal Afar.[/size]
[size=45]These groups are also spread inside Mosul (the center of Nineveh Governorate) in three neighborhoods: Rashidiya, Al-Kubba (Al-Qubba), and Sherikhan.[/size]
[size=45]Faction State![/size]
[size=45]According to the source, who asked not to be named, in an interview with Al-Mada, "These groups control the administrative decision, and the local government cannot move a single employee."[/size]
[size=45]These groups in the three towns are acquiring huge agricultural lands and housing complexes allocated to state employees with bonds, some of which date back to 1990. Among these complexes are located in the waterfalls area, and about 2,000 plots of land were distributed to the employees of the Mosul Pharmaceutical Factory. The sources said, "The armed groups are preventing closeness or building from the lands they have seized," noting that "some lands were seized by" official books from Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]The value of buying some small real estate in the commercial areas of Bab al-Toub in Mosul is about 100 million dinars, while the real price reaches one and a half billion dinars.[/size]
[size=45]According to the sources, the purchase process inside Mosul “is carried out through intermediaries and unknown names who are a front for these armed groups.”[/size]
[size=45]In 2018, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, had issued a warning about the city, and said at the time that “Mosul is in danger,” calling for its rescue. At that time, a committee was formed in Parliament and revealed illegal economic activities.[/size]
[size=45]According to information received by Al-Mada at the time, officials in some of the armed factions that participated in the liberation of Mosul at the end of 2017, took off their military uniforms and put on business suits, and began to control oil, real estate and auctions in the city.[/size]
[size=45]Sources in the city said at the time that there are lands belonging to the Antiquities Authority and the ministries of oil and defense in the heart of the city, “which have been divided in preparation for selling them to citizens.”[/size]
[size=45]The sources confirmed that parties linked to influential personalities in Baghdad divided large lands in the archaeological hill area near the Prophet Yunus in Mosul, into 500 housing units, and that the price of the plot (200 meters) reached 70 million dinars.[/size]
[size=45]According to officials in Mosul, these lands contain many buried antiquities.[/size]
[size=45]In 2017, one of the trespassers on those lands dug one meter into the ground and found artifacts. A committee was formed from the governorate at the time and handed over to the antiquities.[/size]
[size=45]The sources confirm that these groups have carried out the division of many lands in the city, and that these groups are moving with the help of parties from the city's municipality and the real estate registry.[/size]
[size=45]Christian real estate[/size]
[size=45]Meanwhile, Fawaz al-Tayeb, a member of the political body in the United Iraq Party, says that "some economic offices affiliated with parties and unknown persons buy real estate from Christians at half the price or less."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Tayeb added in a telephone conversation yesterday with (Al-Mada), that “houses, for example, for Christians in Bartella, in the Nineveh Plain, cost 100 million, but they are sold to these groups for 30 and 40 million dinars, especially since the owners decided to emigrate and not return.”[/size]
[size=45]The number of Christians in Iraq decreased to less than 50% after 2003, and since then, 1,200 Christians have been killed throughout the country, including “700 who were killed on identity.” According to Christian human rights associations. According to informed sources in Nineveh, she told Al-Mada that "groups believed to be affiliated with armed groups are forging the bonds of Mosul residents," estimating that "more than 9,000 documents have been forged, about half of which are for Christian properties."[/size]
[size=45]The Deputy Governor, Hassan Al-Allaf, had previously said that “factions and parties caused the loss of five thousand dunums of government lands in Mosul” due to forgery.[/size]
[size=45]According to Christian human rights groups, who spoke to Al-Mada, "about 200,000 Christians lived in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain before the emergence of ISIS in the summer of 2014," while they pointed out that the current number of Christians in Nineveh amounts to "about 25,000 people."[/size]
[size=45]ISIS has destroyed 130,000 homes, mostly for Christians, in the Nineveh Plain, and about 20 churches out of 30 in Nineveh, some of which are 1500 years old.[/size]
[size=45]According to some analyzes, Tehran is racing to have the greatest influence in Mosul on the pretext of participating in the reconstruction.[/size]
[size=45]However, this participation is not satisfied by the population and the political forces, according to what Muhammad Nouri, spokesman for the “Azm” coalition led by Khamis al-Khanjar describes. Nouri, a former deputy from Nineveh, told Al-Mada: "Mosul welcomes any effort for reconstruction, but is the Iranian offer for reconstruction only or for political hegemony?"[/size]
[size=45]The day before yesterday, the Iranian consul in Erbil had visited Mosul, and said in a joint press conference with the governor, Najm al-Jubouri, that "the city has been subjected to great destruction due to terrorism, and despite what the local government offers, the extent of the destruction is much greater than its potential."[/size]
[size=45]He added, "Iran is ready to provide services, especially in the context of reconstruction and construction, and it has great capabilities and expertise in this field." This visit came a few days after the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Mosul, and the latter pledged to rebuild.[/size]
[size=45]The war on ISIS has cost about $300 billion, and in Nineveh province alone, 10,000 civilians were killed and 54,000 homes were destroyed.[/size]
[size=45]Muhammad Nouri, a candidate for the upcoming elections, says that "the reconstruction in Mosul was carried out by the people and some international organizations, with a small contribution from the local and central governments."[/size]
[size=45]Several countries had promised to rebuild Mosul, including participating in the donors' conference that was held in Kuwait in 2018.[/size]
[size=45]But Nouri says that “the main reason for the failure to receive the reconstruction funds is the fear that the money will go to support armed groups and not to projects.”[/size]
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