Hamid Qassem, founder of the People's Committee for the Protection of Public Funds: We will pursue t

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[size=52]Hamid Qassem, founder of the People's Committee for the Protection of Public Funds: We will pursue the legally corrupt to restore the rights of Iraqis[/size]

[size=48]Hamid Qasim, founder of the (People's Committee for the Protection of Public Funds) to Rudaw: We will pursue the corrupt legally to restore the rights of Iraqis[/size]
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[size=45]Maad Fayyad

The formation of the “People’s Committee for the Protection of Public Funds” was announced in Baghdad, and a statement of the announcement of the committee stated: “The People’s Committee for the Protection of Public Funds held its first consultative meeting in the Culture for All Hall in the presence of a fine elite of lawyers, economists, media, academics, civil society organizations and a group of The youth and men of Tishreen. He added: “The session was moderated by the media, writer and poet Hamid Qassem, with the participation of the audience, with a review of the sources of the scourge of corruption that is legitimate and protected by the ruling parties and its big whales, and the use of all necessary popular and legal means to confront and limit it through mass protests, filing lawsuits and legal complaints and various media and social media to expose corruption crimes and its perpetrators. As in the scandal of theft of the last century, the heinous and hideous.”[/size]
[size=45]And “the meeting concluded with the formation of legal, media and follow-up committees to curb this cancerous scourge in the body of Iraq for 19 years and to protect Iraqi public money by all legitimate and available means legally, constitutionally and popularly.”[/size]
[size=45]Hamid Qassem, who launched the idea of ​​forming the “People’s Committee for the Protection of Public Funds” not a short time ago, but the project has been achieved today, told Rudaw Media Network today, Wednesday, October 26, 2022, that “the project is not an individual and does not concern me alone, but rather it is a collective project that participates in It has a large number of volunteers,” noting that: The idea is old and I started thinking about it since the first Iraqi government was formed after the 2005 elections, where they described the ruling regime as democratic, but it is a systematic thievery system.”[/size]
[size=45]Qassem warned that "corruption began since 2003, and the files indicate that the US administration, during its occupation of Iraq, and during the reigns of J. Garner and Paul Bremer, the American civil administrator of Iraq, was involved in serious corruption files, and it is said that these files are now being examined in the American judiciary." That: “What concerns us in the People’s Committee for the Protection of Public Funds is the corruption that started with the Iraqi governments, and we have been looking at these files since the formation of the first Iraqi government in 2005 until today.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, "Hundreds of billions of dollars were stolen, and no one knows their fate, and our task is to discover, excavate and search for them because they represent wasted opportunities from Iraqis' lives, livelihood, dignity, future and development of the country." He admitted: “We know that we have been delayed a lot due to personal circumstances, poor security conditions in Baghdad in particular, and threats, which amounted to killing, and it actually happened where activists who spoke loudly about terrorist crimes and corruption files were absent and liquidated.”[/size]
[size=45]The founder of the People’s Committee for the Protection of Public Funds, Hamid Qassem, revealed that: “The number of members of the committee’s general body has reached more than 500 volunteer members from inside and outside Iraq, and they are from multiple specializations, including academics in law, economy and media,” and said: “We are now In the process of drafting the internal system of the committee and registering it as a civil society organization, and more than that, we are working to ensure that this committee has a legal and recognized Iraqi and international status so that we can file cases before the competent courts inside and outside Iraq and communicate with associations, committees and international organizations, the most important of which is the United Nations through its representatives in Iraq (UNAMI), the powers are taken away and not granted, and we will enjoy legal powers and this will give us greater freedom to deal with the files that will be studied by experts in law and economics.” He explained that "the general center of the committee will be in Baghdad, and we have branches in the rest of the governorates, and we will strive to have representation and presence outside Iraq."[/size]
[size=45]Qassem stressed: “We will proceed with our work in prosecuting the corrupt and returning public money through multiple committees to search for, receive, sort, study and classify documents, and then move according to the importance of these documents and identify specific mechanisms to preserve public money, and our main goal is to pursue former public money thieves. These crimes do not fall by the statute of limitations.” Noting that: “Corruption is not limited to the stage of the caretaker prime minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, and the establishment of the committee is not related to what was called the theft of the era, tax money. The authority, there is no difference between an Effendi and a generalized except for the amount, and all files should be opened.”[/size]
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