Parliamentary Integrity: The government is determined to hold the arms deal with

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Saturday, 06 July / July 2013 08:51

{Baghdad: Euphrates News} confirmed the decision of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee MP Khalid al-Alwani said the Iraqi government was determined to hold a new arms deal with Russia, despite suspicions of corruption that marred the first deal involving senior officials in the state.

He said al-Alwani told {Euphrates News} on Saturday that "we hope not to be Maliki's visit recently to Moscow to hold the arms deal with the new Russia that the deal, which has in the past been marred by corruption involving senior state officials," adding that "there is an amount {195} million was a commission to the former government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh and a number of officials. "

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, has arrived on an official visit in the {30} from last June to the Russian capital Moscow and discussed with officials of files related to the economy and military cooperation.

The Iraqi government had signed at the beginning of the month of October of last year 2012 a number of arms deals with the State of Russia and the Czech Republic during a visit by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to them the value of four billion dollars.

And was raised on Russian arms deal, which was $ 4 billion and $ 200 million processed under which Russia Iraqi army with weapons and military equipment, suspicions of corruption by charging commissions from people, Iraqis and Arabs, but it stopped in agreement with the Russian side.

That deal led to the sacking of the Russian president for his defense minister as well as parliamentary bodies revealed the names of Iraqi figures involved in corruption in the deal sacked on the track Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh and the House of Representatives to form a special committee to investigate corruption in the deal.

The new Alwani claim to "re-investigate the issue of arms deal with Russia, which unfortunately closed investigated because of the pressures of certain," stressing that "the budget 2013 Enter the sum of one billion and {400} million for the deal of Russian weapons but Alaqaúma Iraq have had a privileged position and had to cancel this money and Thouliha to the provinces to take advantage of them, "and expressed his hope that" the government be directed arming the army is not real for a corruption-free arms deals. "

And expressed Russia before the fear of the continuation of the transaction as the words of a member of the security and defense committee parliamentary governor Zamili, who said that there is fear big by Russia on contract with Iraq in the trades new weapons for not resolving this file from the Iraqi side. Ended


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