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Officials in Parliament electricity face corruption charges
On: Friday 1/13/2012 5:32
Baghdad / term
revealed to the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary intention to call the directors in the Ministry of Electricity on the background issues, financial and administrative corruption, indicating that the billions of dinars have been spent on the establishment of power stations and returning others to work without having achieved anything on the ground.
Said committee member Susan Saad, in a statement released yesterday and received (range) a copy of it, that "the intention of the Committee to call managers for two years in the Ministry of Electricity on the back issues of financial and administrative corruption in the ministry," pointing out that "the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee decided after the completion of preliminary investigations with the lower echelons of the Ministry of Electricity, call them to complete the investigations. "
she said Saad that "the interrogation will focus on delayed projects since 2006 until today," asserting that "billions of dinars were spent on plants and restore others to work without having achieved anything on the ground Indeed, even some of those projects not completed at all, and remained a dead letter, despite the disbursement of funds it. "
The Member of the Commission on oil and energy and natural resources parliamentary out that "the Commission of Inquiry many files related to the issues of administrative and financial corruption in the Ministry of Electricity," pointing to it " would seek to compare the documents available to the Commission with those that will be requested from the general managers who will be called upon to reach the final results. "
Perhaps the Ministry of Electricity of the most Iraqi ministries, which has been accused of corruption or incompetence after 2003, especially in light of the crisis electrical bloat of the country, and not the efficacy of procedures for the ministry, despite huge amounts of money allocated to it, as long those charges are many who have held her purse, which led to the escape of its minister, former accused of corruption Ayham al-Samarrai, the dismissal of its minister, former also Karim Wahid, and Ozerha former Thunder waterfall, on the back of the signing of contracts and fake!
The independent MP in the Iraqi parliament Sabah al-Saadi, accused (on 9 August 2011 the past), Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani, of involvement in the decades phantom concluded by the Ministry of Electricity, and caused the dismissal of Electricity Minister Raad, a waterfall, adding that the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki briefed on those contracts before signing, have returned to a waterfall was just a "scapegoat!"
The Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (7 August 2011), a decision to dismiss the Minister of Electricity Raad waterfall on the back of the signing of contracts and the mock worth about one billion and $ 700 million , after a few hours on the detection of a member of parliament for a coalition of state law Hanan al signature waterfall commercial contracts with two companies, "and the imaginary."
Previously, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on February 17, 2011 last, to end electricity crisis in the country during a period not exceeding 15 months, in a series of undertakings which was launched in response to the movement of mass protests witnessed by the majority of Iraqi cities on 15 February 2011, the past.
It is noteworthy that Iraq is suffering a severe shortage of electric power since the beginning of 1990, as increased hours of rationing power after 2003 in Baghdad and the provinces, because of made a lot of stations, as well as sabotage attacks on vital installations during the past years.
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