Iraq seeks to possess effective tools to curb money laundering and terrorist financing

by **claud39** Thu Jul 01, 2021 5:56 pm

Iraq seeks to possess effective tools to curb money laundering and terrorist financing

021/07/01 21:24

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Baghdad / Obelisk: Money laundering and terrorist financing operations in Iraq are a source of concern after the phenomenon has spread since 2003 as a result of poor management and weak oversight.

Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi has sought, since assuming the premiership, to eliminate money laundering and terrorist financing operations to remove Iraq from the list of high-risk countries in money laundering operations.

On Thursday, July 1, 2021, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Kazemi called on the European Union to remove his country's name from its list of countries with a high risk of money laundering, stressing the need to form a coordination committee between the two parties to support Baghdad's efforts to fight corruption and recover and prosecute smuggled funds in European countries.

Iraq is trying to have the appropriate tools to curb the whales of corruption that have swallowed public funds over the past 17 years.

In July 2020, Iraq announced the launch of a political and diplomatic campaign with European countries to raise its name in its list of high-risk countries that witness money laundering and terrorist financing.

The decision to put Iraq on the list constituted a danger to the Iraqi economy and foreign investments on its lands, whose name was included in 2019.

Adviser to the Prime Minister for Financial Affairs, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, said that removing the name of Iraq from the list of countries with high risks in the issue of money laundering and terrorism financing crimes, will provide the Iraqi financial market with an increase in the confidence of the international financial community towards Iraq and its banking institutions.

In July 2019, the European Commission included Iraq and some other countries, among the list of countries that pose financial risks to the Union due to the apparent failure to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

And sales of hard currency take place through the window of the Central Bank, to banks, private banks and the financial transfer sectors with the aim of importing goods and merchandise.

Authorities and personalities who manage a number of banks are accused of acquiring the total that is being sold, but the move to reduce the value of the dinar against the dollar paralyzed this phenomenon and shocked the personalities who were trading Iraqi money.

Economists considered that the currency auction is one of the most dangerous unknown corruption files in Iraq, which are unknown because they are linked to partisan interests with regional and international extensions.

Over the past years, the corrupt have devised many ways to launder money and smuggle it outside the country, and parties have even exploited public money to finance terrorism.

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