$ 500 billion smuggled from countries of the "Arab spring"

$ 500 billion smuggled from countries of the "Arab spring"

14-10-2014 11:55 PM



Iraq is not delivered, albeit outside the Arab spring of smuggling money abroad during the war. But the bad security conditions and winding political path taken by the country since the invasion, contributed to the loss of billions of dollars smuggled.

According to the New York Times, the investigations conducted in 2010 on the disappearance and wasting about $ 20 billion of Iraqi funds, showed that an amount of $ 1.2 billion to $ 1.6 billion of funds smuggled from Iraq, hiding in a cellar in the Lebanese countryside with alloys of gold worth US $ 200 million. However, the US and Iraqi Governments rejected the follow-up investigation.

The beginnings of the story to the period following the ouster of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, when convoys loaded with ' unusual ' materials access, and regularly, to Andrews Air Force base near Washington DC. The Caravan is a load Fund worth 12 to 14 billion dollars of Iraqi oil money in American banks, plus bank transfer worth $ 5 billion. This remains a great unknown amounts without providing answers.

The Development Fund for Iraq was established at the request of the CPA, which was chaired by the then us administrator Paul Bremer and was Governor of Iraq after the invasion. The UN Security Council passed a resolution in this regard to convert part of the Iraqi oil funds for the reconstruction of the country. But the money has been lost and disappeared.

And former US President George Bush Jr., Stewart f. Bowen Jr, at the head of a Commission to investigate the place and because of the disappearance of the money, add to file corruption and waste in Iraq during the years of occupation. The investigation team was unable during its nine years (2004-2013) to access the answers. And the administration of President Barack Obama, the us, the work of the Committee last year.

The head of the Office, Bowen, in an interview with the New York Times that one of his workers, Wael Al-Zein, a Lebanese American, received in 2010, classified information about the smuggling of money to Lebanon and on the location of the cache. Bowen told us the ' CIA ' Central Intelligence Agency, and the ' FBI ' FBI, as I know the Iraqi Government order. But everybody ignores tracing it. But the Bush Administration has opposed travel Bowen to Lebanon on an official mission to investigate.

Bowen said that the US administration and various devices are justified because it ignored those funds ' Iraqi money stolen by the Iraqis '. Bowen said that all agencies and Governments, including the Government of Iraq, has kept it a secret.

Bowen said in his New York Times ' multi-billion-fled from Iraq in the last 10 years '.

In Libya, the Libyan transparency society said, Ibrahim Abu became the symbols of the former regime in Libya, escaped nearly 120 billion dollars to different countries around the world, during the 42 years.

He said he became, in comments published Friday, that money diverted attention by the United Nations General Assembly, and that it provide information in this regard to the Libyan Government for official actions.

He said: we smuggled $ 750 million to the boys and then to France, based on the information we have received, we have made Libyan Government evidence and documents that transfer this amount after revolution via air freight. This amount is now in the possession of French customs and our whistleblowers that incident of non-Libyans.

He noted that this incident made Libyan Attorney, but no response so far from the Libyan Government.

Commission refund of the Libyan national Congress last year, the volume of funds smuggled to some 220 billion dollars.

In the context of the Egyptian delegation, which had participated in the seventh session of the Conference of the parties to the Convention ' organized crime ' in Vienna on Monday, highlighted the obstacles to Egypt to recover funds smuggled abroad, demanding world countries to overcome the difficulties in responding to requests for restitution.

And World Bank experts estimate the volume of funds smuggled Egyptian about 134 billion dollars over 30 years. The network revealed BBC News, last year, documents about how to grab smuggling business leaders and Government officers for funds during the rule of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Tunisia, says that the funds she former Tunisian President, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and sons-in-law abroad is complicated and long.

The Tunisian Government mandated 8 international offices of his warming up in collaboration with the African Development Bank in Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates to plead cases recovery of contraband.

While the estimated financial transparency Tunisian non-governmental funds smuggled from Tunisia by Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family about $ 32 billion, and the approach to the national authority to retrieve looted funds in Yemen, who smuggled him wealth estimated by the symbols system former President Ali Abdullah Saleh between 30 and 70 billion dollars.

According to a study issued by the Regional Centre for strategic studies, all estimated that the total value of the smuggled from the Arab spring for systems of Mubarak and Saleh and Gaddafi and Ben Ali, approaching $ 500 billion.

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