About to kidnap a contract for the next 15 years... Serco... The story of a company that has been si

[size=52]About to kidnap a contract for the next 15 years... Serco... The story of a company that has been sitting on the chest of Iraq for 10 years[/size]

[size=45]part One[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mada opens the file of a company that controls Iraq’s airspace, and imposes itself to own the money and revenues of the Iraqi Air Navigation Company, and to collect salaries for its employees estimated at about 300 million dinars per month for each employee. In return, the company and its employees do nothing, and there is no need for it in the air control department. ![/size]
[size=45]Despite the correspondences and assurances and the agreement of all concerned parties on this, it has been continuing to renew its contract for 10 years, and is working to obtain a long-term contract for the next 15 years, amid the acquiescence of the higher authorities in Iraq without knowing the secret behind it.[/size]
[size=45]A mafia atmosphere hangs over the Iraqi Air Navigation Company, in a front where Iraqi employees are prohibited from speaking, in exchange for the British “Serco” company, and its “vague” influence that makes Iraq, its authorities and its airspace subject to its desires that have been going on for ten years, and it is hoped that it will obtain a long-term contract For another 15 years, through which it earns billions of dollars as a “partner” with the Iraqi state treasury, and for free. Rather, all the company will do is put its employees in offices to earn approximately 16 million dollars annually, in addition to 70% of Iraq’s navigational revenues, or it may reach 100%, and approximately $50 million annually.[/size]
[size=45]Ten years picking up money falling from the sky of Iraq[/size]
[size=45]Serco's story began in 2011, due to the lack of Iraqi air traffic controllers, who are the individuals responsible for monitoring and regulating the movement of aircraft that land or fly from Iraq, or even pass through its airspace, to move between other countries, as a contract was signed with Serco in the amount of 57 million dollars for two years. To train 200 Iraqi air traffic controllers, this goal has not been achieved despite the passage of 10 years.[/size]
[size=45]The amounts doubled from 57 million dollars, so that from 2011 to 2020, Serco obtained nearly 250 million dollars (a quarter of a billion dollars), and only 70 air traffic controllers were trained, which means that training one air traffic controller cost the Iraqi state more than 3.5 million dollars ( More than 4 billion Iraqi dinars), while the cost of 6 million dollars (the cost of training only two air traffic controllers) it was possible to “train 200 air traffic controllers with it in the most prestigious academies in the world,” says one of the air traffic controllers in the Air Navigation Company during an interview with (Term).[/size]
[size=45](Al-Mada) obtained documents issued by the Board of Supreme Audit for the year 2021, confirming that Serco did not complete the terms of the contract and that there was no plan by Serco to train air traffic controllers, the number of trainees or the type of training courses to be held since 2011, until 2020, the year in which it ended Serco has an official contract, before renewing it in 2021.[/size]
[size=45]The air traffic controller who spoke to Al-Mada indicated that “the 250 million dollars (about 300 billion dinars) that were spent during the past 10 years on Serco, if we spent only half of it on air navigation to train cadres and infrastructure, our revenue today would be 350 million dollars. It goes to the state budget by attracting international planes to pass through our airspace, and instead of 450 dollars for each plane, we could get 800 dollars for each plane, as the International Air Transport Association, (IATA) is the one that sets the prices for planes passage, and the price of one plane passing through the air Iraq has 350 dollars per plane, then (IATA) raised it to an additional 100 dollars, and it became 450 dollars per plane two years ago, but it stipulated investing this 100 dollars, in the infrastructure of the navigation company, in order to later raise the fare to 800 dollars on each plane. .[/size]
[size=45]Renewing the contract for Circo is a "holy duty"![/size]
[size=45]Despite the violations of Serco’s work and the lack of a clear plan for its work, and the lack of need for it with the agreement of all concerned parties, the process of renewing the contract with it continues in an ambiguous atmosphere, and under pressure from Iraqi political parties, so that no government, past and present, is able to stop This series, despite the legal and technical violations that fill the contracts of this company, and its failure to provide any services to Iraq, but rather takes the money that rains from the sky of Iraq, which is paid by the planes transiting Iraqi airspace, which comes with effort and risks that fall on the shoulders of the Iraqi air traffic controllers, who extended the treasury The state will reach nearly 70 billion dinars during 2021.[/size]
[size=45]Each plane that crosses Iraqi airspace pays $450 to Iraq as revenue for the Iraqi Air Navigation Company, while about 300 planes pass daily in the sky of Iraq, which means that the total entering Iraq from this process is about 135,000 dollars per day, which is a profitable process, which makes this The profitable operation is a target of political parties in agreement with the British "Serco" company.[/size]
[size=45]The air traffic controller, who spoke to Al-Mada more, cites the lack of need for Serco, saying, “It is assumed that Serco and through its training of Iraqi cadres for 10 years, all cadres are supposed to have a doctorate in air traffic control and do not need further training, Continuing to contract with Serco means either that it has not trained its cadres well over the past years, and this must open an investigation against the company and the political parties contracting with it, or that the company’s presence is not related to training or the need for it, but rather to drain Iraqi funds only, and this is exactly what is happening.”[/size]
[size=45]Throughout these years, Serco did nothing but sit in offices, while Iraqi cadres assumed the tasks of monitoring the airspace and entering the revenues into the state treasury. Annually over the past years, with cadres not exceeding 20 people or less, which means that each Serco employee receives more than 100 million dinars per month without doing anything, while the Iraqi air traffic controller, who manages the work, receives a million Iraqi dinars. Just.[/size]
[size=45]The talk about Serco not providing any services is confirmed by parliamentary statements. The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hassan Al-Kaabi, said in a televised statement on the official Iraqi channel, that “Serco and the corrupt people behind it do not provide 1% of the services.” to Iraq in return for the money it receives,” considering the contract, as, “a waste of Iraqi money.”[/size]
[size=45]In fact, the Minister of Transport, Nasser Al-Shibli, in televised statements on Iraq 24 channel, said that when he was visiting Baghdad Airport since 2014, the shortage of air traffic controllers was 6, and when I became a minister and went, the shortage was the same number of air monitors, in addition to that, the progress of operations Air navigation has been in Iraqi hands since the beginning of this year until now, all of which prove that Serco does not provide anything and there is no need for it.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mada reviews several documents confirming that the Air Navigation Company in all its divisions does not need Serco or any other foreign company, and enables Iraqi cadres to carry out these works, which is also confirmed by the report of the Financial Supervision Bureau for the year 2021.[/size]
[size=45]Despite confirming that the Iraqi Air Navigation Company in all its divisions does not need any foreign company, including Serco, the Iraqi government, during 2021, decided in August to contract again with Serco for a full year and “retroactively” from 1 January 2021, and by assigning the Director General of Contracts and Licensing in the Ministry of Transport, Muayyad Hussein, to manage the Air Navigation Company, which is the fourth change to the management of the company within a short period, just to pass the contract, sources confirm to (Al Mada).[/size]
[size=45]In completion of this conversation, (Al Mada) will publish at a later time the details and scenes of renewing the contract for Serco during 2021, and negotiations on a framework contract that extends for the next 15 years.[/size]
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