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Iraq recovers millions of dollars from the corruption of billions issues
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Wrote Ali al-Azzawi: specialized commercial proceedings in the Supreme Judicial Council in Iraq, the Court affirmed, on Wednesday, said that the public prosecutor was able to 'recover millions of dollars for the state', and as pointed out the weakness of the role of the legal representatives of government departments, confirmed that the lack of experience and low legal culture among Some of them cause the dissipation of public funds, and called on the ministries and departments to hire senior lawyers in business suits. And the transfer of the Supreme Judicial Council in a statement from the Commercial Court judge, Amir al-Shammari, that 'the Supreme Judicial Council noted the weakness of the role of the legal representatives of government departments in the protection of public funds resorted to the placement of a prosecutor to attend the proceedings of the Commercial Court'. He said al-Shammari, the first judge of the Court of specialized commercial claims first instance, in a press statement, reached the 'new Arab' copy of it, that 'representatives of state departments of legal do not have sufficient experience in judicial work as well as the ignorance of many of them law', noting that ' This causes an imbalance in the balance of the issue of the defense lawyer in proceedings against the large companies which lead to the loss of government institutions financial rights often '. He added: 'Some large companies entrusted with senior lawyers in defending its interests with only some government departments to their legal representatives, regardless of the legal background and experience'. He called on government departments to 'representatives not only legal, but resorting to lawyers experts and well-known, especially in important cases'. And as he emphasized the 'need to work on the development of the judicial culture of the legal representative of what to do from direct contact with the elimination', he pointed to the importance of 'ministries and government departments interesting working conditions and contracting with companies, because any violation of these terms will outweigh the other party'. It did not say how much those amounts, however, stressed the continuation of the judicial comment and review files of corruption in the country process. Finance Committee in the Iraqi Parliament revealed last week, for the country's loss of about $ 360 billion, due to corruption and money-laundering operations, held for 9 years and in the period between 2006 and 2014, in which former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ruled the country, with specialists student referral Maliki to eliminate charges of theft and waste of public money. And announced the Development Fund for Iraq which was formed in 2004 by a decision of the United Nations, that the fund balance reached $ 165 billion in 2009, and this revenue was prone to corruption, where the disappeared, including $ 17 billion in 2003 and another $ 40 billion in 2010, and trimmed corruption cases these balances to $ 18 billion only in 2012 '. Around 20% of Iraq's population under the poverty of the total 32.5 million people line, according to World Bank estimates. And facing a large proportion of the Iraqi people, the specter of falling into poverty, despite the fact that Iraq produces about 2.5 million barrels of oil with expectations to increase production to four million barrels per day. .
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