12/29/2014 09:46
Tomorrow Press / Baghdad: Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed Monday that Iraq has so far recovered about one billion dollars of his money frozen in a number of countries, noting that the Iraqi government and in cooperation with the Parliament seeking to recover the remains.
The committee member said Haitham al-Jubouri's "Tomorrow's Press," that "Iraq has enormous funds frozen in a number of international banks which date back to the operations was carried out by the former regime for many years," noting that "circles formed and specialized committees to recover those funds, and that what has been recovered so far is a billion dollars has been transferred to the state treasury. "
"The government, represented by Foreign Affairs, Justice and Finance ministries in cooperation with the financial and legal parliamentary committees and integrity is seeking to recover the remaining of money, especially with Iraq need money to cover the deficit in the fiscal budget, through the formation of specialized committees of lawyers and experts to discuss the fact that money."
Jubouri and pointed out that "the money will probably not be in the form of cash, but may be real estate, so that case you need to internal and external unremitting efforts."
The Council of Ministers approved in its regular, in 23 of the current December, the budget bill and sent it to Parliament for formal approval, pointing out that the budget approved B123 trillion dinars and a price of $ 60 per barrel of oil and a large deficit.
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