September 2 .2015
Baghdad
explain the Chairman of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi parliament, Ahmed Chalabi, the loss of details about one billion and $ 481 of Iraq's money in the coffers of foreign companies were supposed to implement the ten hospitals in ten provinces but did not accomplish any of those hospitals so far, as well as Being fake companies are not eligible for the completion of such projects.
Worse than that, the companies mentioned now demanding damages of up to $ 60 million under the pretext that it lost money in those projects, which warned of Chalabi, and called on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Health Minister Adela Hammoud to open the contractors file, as well as the investigation of the change class materials and the reluctance of companies to complete the work on schedule.
And reportedly Chalabi, the companies allocated to it hospitals Projects is a company "Universal Ajarsan" Turkish and that got the contract for the implementation of the five hospitals with a capacity of 400 beds per hospital in the provinces of Babil and Maysan, Karbala, Dhi Qar and Basra, where the cost of each hospital $ 150 million and in a way, "turnkey". The company "GMS (GMS)" which includes the German held the implementation of the two hospitals with a capacity of 400 beds per hospital in Najaf and Nineveh, and the total cost of each hospital and $ 148 million in a "turnkey" also. The company "ICI (ACA)" Australian awarded a contract for the implementation of the three hospitals in the provinces of Baghdad, Diyala, Diwaniya, at a cost of $ 145 million for each hospital as well as in a "turnkey".
He said Chalabi said in remarks received for (Sumer News) that "more than 100 companies applied for the tender when it was announced the construction of ten hospitals, was the opening of tenders in the Ministry of Health," adding that "a joint committee of the Ministry of Health and other ministries has subsequently analyzed Tenders for two weeks at the Sheraton Hotel, was the nomination of ten companies in order to be referred to the hospital every company. "
He added that "the thieves who then bring the three companies mentioned above, the infamous, and that did not make the competition and there is no indication that companies in the minutes of the opening and analysis, where he was sending a high-level delegation from the Ministry of Health and the Office of the Prime Minister to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates and Germany for the completed hospitals by the companies to be contracted for the project mentioned above, "pointing out that" the companies indicated that they have branches in Jakarta, Dubai and Qatar, was the review of the proposed stages of implementation of the project by the companies have not been able companies to give an idea of the price speculative ".
Chalabi and pointed out that "the Commission's decision is installed in the IFAD report was read: (Panel proposes Having considered the hospitals and the quality of work in which invitations to a group of companies including the Australian company's AIM, which later became the Australian ACA company's ability capable of, and which was withdrawn work of them and stole amounts letter of guarantee for operating the advance worth 75 million dollars and up to the present time in coordination with the bank Union and the United sponsored by MP Khalid al-Asadi, I think the owner of United Bank, and up to the present time the amount of operational advance possession (James Arnold), a people of Iraqi origin nationality Australian and whose real name is Jamal Abbas Ali. "
And that "sending the Commission's decision and the aforementioned not careful, because the company stores Bahdtha work does not have any similar acts, how sending in its report, the Committee stated that it had seen hospitals and the quality of work which decided on the basis of that to invite such company?" Explaining "The book Mr. adviser to Prime Minister al-Hakim is the right number (1229) in 10/9/2008 select group of companies that have the ability to build a hospital in his opinion."
He said Chalabi "There is no documented evidence that the three companies are of sober and experienced companies in the field of establishing hospitals or have any asymptotic work to this area," stressing "the absence of any study by the ministry or members of the sending of the Committee of the efficiency of the three companies of the financial and technical point of view , and there is no evidence showing that the companies mentioned have a history of settling accounts tax, whether in Iraq or any other country. "
He stressed that "the transmittal of this strategic project custody of the listed company is not in accordance with the correct contexts and instructions, where there are no technical and financial study of the offers submitted by the companies or the economic feasibility study, as well as is not the study of the biography of companies and previous achievements, until it is in preference to other companies," He pointed out that "the representatives of the three companies came to Baghdad and was interviewed directors authorized by both Mr. Haq al-Hakim and engineer Dhafer Mahmoud Khalaf Ali Dbouk Hassan Abdul-Karim Hammoud, was the focus of the meeting to negotiate on technical matters and designs and the requirements of the ministry, was to install a set of conditions from both sides, it was lifted this report to His Excellency the former minister d. Saleh al-Hasnawi. "
He explained that "the High Commission in the Ministry under the chairmanship of former minister Dr. Salih Mahdi Hasnawi Mr. senior agent d. Amer al-Khuzai, Mr. Undersecretary for reconstruction and donors d. Essam Namiq and agent administrative D.khamis Saad and adviser of the Prime Minister Dr. Amal Mussa, decided assignment the three companies to create ten hospitals ", pointing out that" it was raising the issue to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers the book a number (8470) on 23/12/2008 for approval, and the Council of Ministers decided in its first session, held on the same day 23/12 / 2008 to approve the assignment was mentioned to conclude contracts in the next day. "
Chalabi stressed that "the referral and contract prices mentioned not based on prior study and determine the costs speculative as instructed by the implementation of government contracts," adding that "it was delivery companies operating advance by 20% of the value of contracts, and this is contrary to the instructions as stated book Integrity Commission number ( 1497) in 05.10.2012 and Almattov on a book of Supreme Audit a number 6/20/1/9362 in 02/05/2012, and in spite of the large amounts that have been delivered to those companies, but it has not fulfilled its obligations to the ministry in the completion of projects exact time. "
"The Australian company has supplied the ministry letters of guarantee from Union Bank of Iraq to meet operational advances Exchange, and when our audit of those speeches and found that the bank did not take any guarantees for the issuance of these letters did not follow instructions issued by the Central Bank of Iraq as the authority supervising and controlling the private banks work and, in effect, the company introduced new letters of guarantee, but this time was the letters of guarantee allegedly forged by the bank concerned (United Investment Bank). "
He pointed Chalabi that "the former prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki inaugurated Imam Sadiq Hospital in Babylon in the third month of 2014 Kdaiat election, and the completion rate at the time of up to (80%) were creating boulevard in front of the cameras and the Prime Minister, and after more than a passing year and a half, he did not receive the hospital one patient and the current rate of achievement (90%) and project turnkey, "noting that" there is pressure from the former prime minister on the Resident Engineer circle on raising achievement to work on the fundamental flaws in it and manipulation that got to change Specifications by the Ministry of Health for the benefit of the executing companies after paying bribes to them by companies with a switch sober another Chinese or Turkish origin, where million dollars to manipulate the amount of up to about 15 for each hospital. "
Chalabi and added that "the Ministry of Health referred the new projects to those lagging companies that have not done any hospital since 2008 until 2015, where has the assignment of three new hospitals to the Turkish company and three hospitals on the German company, and the experimenter does not try."
He concluded Chalabi his speech by saying that "major disaster that the Ministry of Health is considering granting Turkish company and the German is very high compensation for projects of up to $ 60 million for each site according to requests companies despite the fact that projects key delivery can not be compensated on the basis of which a reluctant companies do not accomplish working through projects and thwart the grounds that they amount lost in these projects despite the new projects that have been hauling work on them is less than the old cost of $ 145 million dollars. "
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