The Central Bank supervises the opening of the vaults of its building in Mosul

Tuesday 19 October 2021 17:00
 
Baghdad / NINA / - The Central Bank of Iraq announced the opening of the vaults of the site of its building in the city of Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, today, Tuesday, noting that there are a number of bags of banknotes submerged in groundwater that leaked into the building as a result of the air strike on the building during the operations of clearing the governorate.

The Central Bank of Iraq referred to the approach of the Nineveh Operations Command to assign a specialized force to examine the building, including the bank’s buried safes under the rubble, to ensure that they are free of any security threats, to begin the reconstruction of its branch building in Mosul.

He explained that "a team was formed, headed by the Director of National Security in the province and the membership of a number of other security agencies in addition to the director of the Central Bank of Iraq branch in Mosul. After the committee members attended this morning, Tuesday, to the site of the Central Bank building, the bank's vaults were opened and a number of bags were found. The banknotes submerged in the groundwater that leaked into the building as a result of the air strike on the building during the governorate’s disinfection operations, noting that “the technical committee is extracting treasury assets to be deposited in the central bank until the end of the inventory procedures.”/ Ended 5

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