Abadi hold a meeting with the Supreme Council for fight against corruption

by **Ponee** Mon Mar 07, 2016 8:46 pm

Holding Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, on Monday, held a meeting with the Supreme Council for the fight against corruption, while the meeting is intended to give the necessary support and protection for the Council to do his job in the "prosecution of corruption and the corrupt."

Information Office of the Prime Minister, said in a statement received, (long-Presse), a copy of which, "The Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi held today a meeting with the Supreme Council for the fight against corruption," asserting that "The Council includes members of specialists."

He added Abadi Office that "the meeting is designed to give the necessary protection and support of the Council to do his job in the prosecution of corruption and the corrupt."

The Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called on Wednesday the (23 September 2015), the judges of integrity to strike hard and achieve justice and not to allow corrupt evasion, and while stressing on the need to confront them because they are "more dangerous than cancer" and trying to buy receivables, stressed the need to develop strategies help to deter corruption and speed up resolving these issues

The phenomenon of corruption, "the biggest challenge" facing Iraq, along with security, since the year 2003, especially the levels reached a level led international organizations specialized to the situation in Iraq from among the "most corrupt" countries in the world, as it has led to popular protests successive last of which was pervaded since the majority of the provinces (the 31 of July 2015), to demand the fight against rampant corruption, and improve services.

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