Integrity: Preventing 27 billion dinars from being wasted within three months

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09/23/2020

Economy News - Baghdad

On Wednesday, the Integrity Commission disclosed the entirety of the seizures carried out by its investigation departments and offices within three months, calling on all citizens to report cases of corruption. In order for the Commission's teams to arrest those accused of the flagrante delicto.

In a statement received by Al-Iqtisad News, the investigation department of the authority said, "The operations carried out for the period from 1/5 to 7/31/2020 indicated the implementation of (97) seizures in Baghdad and the provinces, which resulted in the arrest of (85) accused." .

The department explained that “the cadres of the Basra Investigation Directorate carried out (20) operations, including seizing (110) transactions for state-owned real estate valued at (5,000,000,000) billion dinars, which are sold at prices not commensurate with their real value, in addition to containers and trucks containing various materials intended for smuggling. It is not allowed to enter Iraq because it is prohibited from importing. "

She added that "the Nineveh Investigation Directorate has carried out (10) seizures, the most prominent of which is the arrest of an accused person who impersonated a parliamentarian, contacting the Governorate Education Directorate in his personal capacity, as well as seizing employees in the Nineveh Health Department with exchange documents related to the operational budget that were disbursed against the law, And stopping the payment of salaries of retirees with a ki-card, forcing retirees to replace their cards with a new card, and withholding sums of money in contravention of Cabinet Resolution No. 270 and the instructions of the Central Bank.

And it indicated that “(147) fraudulent retirement transactions related to victims of terrorism were seized in the National Pension Authority - Anbar Branch, and the total amounts were (10,000,000,000) billion dinars, and the file of granting an investment loan in Najaf was seized at (7,000,000,000) billion dinars without adequate guarantees, and another loan. With (5,000,000,000) billion dinars, in return for a real estate guarantee previously provided by the same borrower for another loan, and its value is not sufficient to cover the loan amount. "

The department confirmed that “the activity of the field team in the health sector revealed the existence of suspicions of corruption in the contracts for the supply of testing equipment and diagnostic equipment for the Coronavirus, amounting to nearly (400,000,000) million dinars, which the Kirkuk Health Department had contracted, pointing to the arrest of a number of people accused of trespassing and seizing properties belonging to the state In Kirkuk, and the defendants built residential homes and commercial stores on them.

The authority called on all citizens to cooperate with it by reporting cases of corruption, bargaining and extortion that they may be exposed to during their visit to state institutions, by contacting the agency’s outlets designated for this, urging them to visit its official website. For ways to report corruption cases

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