Allawi distances himself from the "trillion scandal" and throws the ball into the Parliamentary Fina

Allawi distances himself from the "trillion scandal" and throws the ball into the Parliamentary Finance court. Documents

• “They move around and appoint fools whom I have to clear up later. I can't go on like this when I know the ministry is being eaten up from within and I can't do anything about it. All circles are infiltrated by parties and oligarchs and there is no one capable and capable who is willing to work in This atmosphere."
  
  Minister Allawi stated, "Nevertheless, when the Minister's office received indications that raise doubts about the continuation of manipulation operations with regard to the recovery of tax deposits, the Minister of Finance addressed the General Tax Authority on November 1, 2021, requesting the priorities of all transactions to recover the deposits that took place during the years 2020 and 2021." Indicating by saying, "And to confirm the prevention of manipulation, the Minister of Finance attributed on November 4, 2021 that the General Tax Authority did not issue a refund of deposits to the taxpayers before obtaining the approval of the Minister, provided that all the transactions of refunding the deposits are presented to the Minister after completing all the fundamental procedures."
  He continued, "On November 5, 2021, he confirmed to the Prime Minister's Office that there were doubts about the continuation of manipulation operations with regard to the recovery of tax trusts, and a report was submitted on this." 
  The former minister pointed out that "what could not be monitored is that the group accused of theft issued sukuk without promoting deposit recovery transactions through a direct process between the General Tax Authority and Rafidain Bank and without being detected by the Ministry's Audit and Oversight Department. It was an operation that was carried out within the corridors of the General Tax Authority and the Rafidain Bank.
  He added, "Among the powers available to them, without the Ministry of Finance having any interference in these dangerous practices, as the Minister of Finance did not receive any notification from the Ministry's departments about the process of liberating and withdrawing the aforementioned instruments, and the Rafidain Bank, in turn, did not inform the Minister about the huge sums that were made." He withdrew it from the bank despite the minister’s meeting with the banks’ departments periodically to follow up on their affairs.
  
  Allawi believed that "the withdrawal of the Financial Supervision Bureau and limiting the process of auditing transactions to return the amounts of tax deposits to the General Authority for Taxes, and according to the request of the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, led to an increase in the possibility of fraud on the Tax Authority, however, the internal procedures of the Tax Authority to verify the legitimacy of the transactions of trusts were They should have stopped outright fraud, but what seems to have happened is that checks were issued to return the deposits without any recorded transaction or paper trail, which means that no audit, from any source, could stop them because they were off the records,” adding, “So received The bad guys were not registered in the accounts of the Tax Authority. According to the instructions issued by the Minister of Finance, it was not possible to issue bonds without going through the audit steps of the Tax Authority, followed by specific approval from the Minister’s office.”
  The resigned minister pointed out that “one of the main factors that led to this brazen theft is the fact that the ministry, its arms, and the state as a whole are unfortunately behind in terms of adopting automated information, accounting and reporting systems,” explaining that “to address this, the finance minister has developed four different programs to fully automate the ministry.” , customs and tax authorities, and the establishment of a single treasury account, and he continued, "If these systems were fully available, it would have been impossible for a theft of this magnitude to occur. However, these programs are not yet fully installed. It takes more time and will to rein in resistance to change and to confront the broad and deep resistance to automation until systems are rescued and fully operational.”
  
  Minister Allawi warned against "some general managers and state employees not complying with the regulations and laws governing their tasks, not following ministerial orders and the minister's directives, concealing information and preventing the supervisory departments from playing their role and reporting it," pointing to "what happened in the Ashtar case, where the contract was signed despite The explicit directive of the Minister of Finance to the contrary and the issue of tax secretariats where no less than 247 trust response instruments have been issued despite the explicit directive of the Minister of Finance to stop it.
  He said, "All of these are due to loyalty to influential political parties that derive their livelihood from whales of corruption and provide immunity to the corrupt."
  The resigned minister advised whoever assumes responsibility to "check the accounts of other trusts in the state, including the accounts of the Customs Authority," wishing success for "the judicial authorities that are looking and working to punish the corrupt by performing their duties in the fullest manner and returning the right and public money to the people."
  
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