The World Bank and six countries declares its readiness to cooperate with Iraq to recover his money stolen

The World Bank and six countries declares its readiness to cooperate with Iraq to recover his money stolen

{Baghdad: Euphrates News} Iraq participated acts of third Arab Forum for the recovery of looted funds held recently in Geneva Bhoudurakther than 250 representatives of governments and authorities, judicial and international and regional organizations, and chaired by Egypt, Tunisia and Switzerland in collaboration with the Initiative {Star} to recover money stolen while he World Bank West states its readiness to cooperate with Iraq to recover his money stolen.

Said Kazem day and general manager of the prevention department at the Integrity Commission said in a statement the agency {Euphrates News} received a copy of it on "The Forum, which is an extension of the first of the forum, which was held in Doha in 2012 and the second, which was held in Marrakech last year, aims to issue binding on member states and states recommendations participation in order to collaborate to re-looted money and people accused in accordance with the ways in which the law drawn "?

He added that the Integrity Commission, which represented the state of Iraq in the forum, which was inaugurated by President Swiss had an active role in participating through the ideas and visions put forward in addition to higher professional coordination enjoyed by the Iraqi delegation, headed by the Inspector General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the membership of the Director General of the recovery circuit in the body Integrity and representatives from the Ministry of Justice. "

He continued, "The sessions of the Arab Forum for a refund, which was hosted by the Swiss capital of 11 to October 13 discussed a number of topics, including the development of recovery of assets and how to stand on the real beneficiary of the money smuggled and the decisions of the freeze administrative strategy in addition to civil damages and the role of the private sector as well as cooperation between civil society and governments. It also was more than {70} held a meeting on the sidelines of the forum in addition to the bilateral meetings that were a feature of the basic features of the Forum at its third session, which contributed to the access to concrete measures to push efforts to recover stolen assets.

He explained that the Iraqi delegation has to hold a number of bilateral meetings with the British and the US and the Lebanese side and the Tunisian and Moroccan and Jordanian who showed their willingness for joint cooperation and pursue legal avenues to recover the money Alnhobh. Praising the role of the World Bank, who has expressed an earnest desire to help Iraq recover his money stolen.

Mr. Director-General pointed out that the participants agreed on a number of recommendations, including the importance of providing international expert assistance and the use of all international and regional networks available for the exchange of information, and the need to understand the relevant determining contact and build bridges of cooperation between the participants points of legal systems to determine timing optimization to send mutual legal assistance requests, and the importance of detecting offenses preliminary evidence inside and outside the affected state.

The participants unanimously agreed on the importance of the role of the judicial authorities and help each others in terms of the procedures and the provision of information and the speed to cooperate with requests for legal assistance and to ensure the immediate follow-up at all stages, welcoming the allocation of the amount of five million dollars for the organization of regional capacity building in the field of asset recovery for 2015 programs

He noted that the participants in the forum praised the efforts of the initiative {Star} in the creation of a comprehensive site for all the resources concerned asset-looted to serve as a central point of reference on the basis of ongoing communication, participants also agreed that the asset recovery issues are complex issues and takes a long time, regardless of the the availability of political will among nations ".anthy

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
--