Parliament" Looking Iraqi officials involved in the smuggling of money through secret session

"Parliament" Looking Iraqi officials involved in the smuggling of money through secret session

Are GMT 17:50 2016 Tuesday, February 23

Arabs today - "parliament" Looking Iraqi officials involved in the smuggling of money through secret session

Iraqi parliament

Najla al-Taie of Baghdad

I decided the presidency of the Iraqi parliament converting discuss the involvement of some government officials in corruption cases to the "secret" session, recommending the House of Representatives not to disclose any information to remember.

And began to Governor of the Central Bank and Deputy Minister of Finance, and representatives of the intelligence service, the Board of Control, who their guest the House of Representatives, last Monday, displays a list involved in the smuggling of money government figures, and discussed the funds session and property intelligence service of the former regime smuggled outside Iraq, deposited with banks and global banks refuse to be delivered to the government of Iraq, and the estimated amounts of contraband and documented in the Iraqi government records, in the past 12 years, $ 15 billion .

The shape of the parliament a supreme committee, headed by a vice president, and members include the heads of the committees on Foreign Relations, money, security, defense and integrity, and legal, in order to recover the amounts of contraband and activate the Recovery Fund, which was only 9 meetings held on despite the presence of his financial allocations in the budget Federal of up to 20 billion dinars a year and was unable to recover any amounts remember.

the lifting of parliamentary sessions to the beginning of next month, while the meeting witnessed the vote on the draft laws and an end to further reading and discussion of Iraqi funds smuggling, said a member of the Finance Committee, deputy Haider Massoud, in a statement to " Arabs today ", that" the parliament hosted the Governor of the Central Bank and a representative of the intelligence Service and the Office of financial supervision and Deputy Minister of Finance; for discussion on money smuggled out of Iraq before and after the year 2003, "revealing the formation of the parliament a supreme committee to follow up the recovery of these funds, and it will begin its work next week.

And founded the Iraq fund called "refund Iraq," under Law No. 9 of 2012, it regulates the work of the Economic and Financial prosecutions department and refund deposits, said a member of the Finance Committee that "the attribution of responsibility to fund refund to the Under Secretary of money, despite the large number of obligations and their concerns did not lead to activating the work of the Fund, although the allocation of 20 billion dinars a year for his work, but he did not hold only 9 meetings. "

said chairman of the parliamentary integrity Commission, Talal Zobaie, that" this committee will work to recover the amounts smuggled in accordance with the oil-for-signed-food program in the former regime period as well as the post-2003, and that money diverted size under the former regime did not specify a particular figure, but these amounts are increasing continuously; because they are deposited in banks and international banks, we are suffering from the news problems of where these banks and banks because the stimulus located in the recovery of funds smuggled Fund It does not give the benefit of the return of funds to these banks only 10%. "

According to another member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, "the amounts of contraband and documented in the Iraqi government records during the past 12 years up to more than $ 15 billion, and that money smuggling operation conducted nonwoven way that is hard to come by, as well as ongoing money laundering operations so far."

The Commission on Foreign relations that money diverted include the former regime period and post-2003, attributes the failure to restore them to a multiplicity of government committees in all ministries and the central bank independent bodies, as reported, a member of the integrity Committee, Iqbal Abdul Hussain that there are companies and real estate belonging to the intelligence service of the former regime period and look out for the Supreme Committee for the restored, pointing out that these properties exist in France, Britain and Switzerland.

And revealed a member of the Integrity Commission's determination "Higher Committee" restore funds deposited by Iraq in the international banks under the oil-for-food program, and that there are negotiations conducted by the Government with these banks, but declined to deliver these amounts, and continued: did not yet know the size of these funds due to lack of reward that text the refund fund and accounted with 10%, and no more than 250 thousand dollars, and these countries or banks consider this a pittance compared to the Iraqi amounts in its possession since the former regime, and part of this is in the banks Jordanian and Swiss funds.

the Deputy head of the Badr parliamentary, Ali gesture, that the House of Representatives session raised earlier government figures involved in money smuggling operation names, as well as companies and non-Iraqi figures, and that there is a decision of all the members of the House of Representatives not to disclose any information discussed in its secrecy.