16/1/2015
Decision / Baghdad
Integrity Commission announced on Thursday that the cover Rusafa court sentenced in absentia to two years imprisonment extreme right of the Director General of the Office of the former anti-money laundering of the Central Bank of Iraq on charges of irregularities in the bank considers a auction.
The authority said in a statement, "The court sentenced the convicted Khalid Hameed Cltag severe imprisonment for two years in accordance with the provisions of Article 331 of the Iraqi Penal Code, indicating that" the convict who served as Director General of the Anti-Money Laundering Office in the Central Bank of Iraq has deliberately breached the functional duties Using overlooked follow irregularities and abuses that marred the currency auction conducted by the central bank. "
The agency said that "the verdict issued against the convicted that during the period of the first in January 2012 and until the thirtieth of August of the same year, during assume convicted Cltag position in Anti-Money Laundering Office of the Director of the Central Bank of Iraq, the oldest on the commission violates his or her job did not work on the Follow-up to the abuses and irregularities that were carried out by some companies and banks involved in the auction sale of hard currency. "
The Commission noted that "companies and banks, which proved to violating the terms of the auction was the purchase of hard currency from the auction without the introduction of the corresponding goods and materials, which stipulated that the auction instructions to the participants need to adhere to them, and entrusted the task of follow-up to the Office of the fight against money laundering."
The statement Authority said that "the Court found during the course of the primary and the judicial investigation and the available evidence in their possession, including the failure mode convicted in his capacity as general manager of the office a clear mechanism to follow up on what is shown of goods and materials in exchange for money withdrawn from the auction currency as well as the statements of the legal representative of the Bank and the presumption convicted of escape from his face justice that the irregularities committed by Cltag and apply the provisions of Article 331 of sanctions. "
It is said that Article 331 of the Iraqi Penal Code provides that it shall be punished by imprisonment and a fine or one of these penalties: Each employee or assigned to public service committed intentionally violates the duties of his job or fails to perform the work of its intent to damage the interests of an individual or with a view to the benefit of people at the expense of The last, or at the expense of the state.
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