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Iraq requests the United Nations to help restore the 17 billion dollars was lost during the rule of Bremer
21/06/2011
Case of the disappearance of some returned 17 billion dollars of Iraqi oil money after 2003, to the interface after the announcement of Parliament seeking to prosecute and recover these funds in coordination with the United Nations.
Baghdad-morning-Reuters
Case of the disappearance of some returned 17 billion dollars of Iraqi oil money after 2003, to the interface after the announcement of Parliament seeking to prosecute and recover these funds in coordination with the United Nations.
These funds were sent from the United States to Iraq to help rebuild Iraq after 2003.
The integrity Commission asked in the House of representatives sent a letter to the United Nations Office in Baghdad last month to help restore oil money taken from the Development Fund for Iraq in 2004 and then lost in the chaos that followed the invasion of Iraq.
It says message sent from the parliamentary integrity Commission to the United Nations Office in Iraq, attached to a 50-page report: "all primitives indicate that organizations of the United States. The occupying forces. (Was) working in Iraq had committed financially corrupt. Theft of the Iraqi people. Which was dedicated to the development of Iraq, which was nearly seventeen billion dollars. "
The letter published some paragraphs of Reuters, "we felt our Committee to refer the matter to each 125 to your Office to do webdorkm to raise to higher authorities in your respectable for verification in the subject and the return of stolen funds."
There was no immediate comment from United Nations officials.
Iraq Development Fund was established in 2003 at the request of the Coalition Provisional Authority, which was chaired by Paul Bremer. It was supposed to use these funds to pay salaries and pensions for retired government officials and reconstruction projects in Iraq.
In 2004 the Department sent former President George Bush of billions of dollars in cash to Iraq. These funds are the proceeds of the sale of Iraqi oil and excess funds from the oil-for-Food Programme United Nations sponsored along with Iraqi assets seized.
In the past financial audit report said of the US Inspector General for Iraq reconstruction: the Pentagon could not properly accounting for $ 8.7 billion dollars from the funds of the Iraqi oil and gas after the year 2003.
Government spokesman Ali debbagh said that "nobody on the Iraqi side was not controlled by Bremer's work at this time."
He continued: "I believe that the United States Administration to provide answers for the expenditure of such funds".
"The Government understands that the Iraqi side also participated in this lack of transparency and corruption on Bremer era."
Osama also said that parliamentary speaker alngivi Commission to investigate the fate of nearly 20 billion dollars from the Iraq Development Fund funds.
Alngivi said, quoted by Reuters: "section of this document to exchange money and no documents ... We as a Parliament we are working with the Office of financial supervision and with the Inspector General who gave us reports to try to know the fate of these funds. "
While Baha Al-araji, head of the Parliamentary Committee on integrity of Iraq requested that the United Nations could help Iraq regain its funds through the view command on the international community.
He said: "we cannot institute proceedings against the Americans because the laws do not allow us to do so. All we want is to pass the matter to the United Nations and nkonaha investigation into this matter. "
Al-araji said: "this if it will be open to return the stolen money."
"Morning" earlier this year had raised the issue of wasting money during that era, where quoted the Office of financial supervision Abdel Basset Turki said more than 17 billion dollars of funds during the administration of Iraq was wastage former US civil administrator Paul Bremer.
The President of the Office of financial supervision from the presence of sustained follow-up to the management of former Bremer in the disbursement of these funds.
As pointed out by Turkish to tampered and misconduct during the rule of Iraqi funds, where did he have to indicate good disposition according to the reports of the Court was informed of reviews international investigative commissions sent from the US Congress.
And invited the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers earlier, all ministries and official institutions to provide all the information available on any abuses occurred during Bremer, concerning funds deposited into the Development Fund for Iraq that were disbursed to fictitious or different projects for the stated specifications. the President of the House of Osama alngivi more recently, on the composition of the committees of inquiry to determine the fate of billions of dollars were withdrawn from the Iraqi Development Fund «» and her fate is unknown.
The Finance Committee also announced in the House begin to pursue multi-billion disappeared during Bremer.
The Committee Member said in effect: that Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi, had submitted a memorandum concerning the disappearance of the money of Iraq and how handled, referring to a fact-finding Commission, composed of 16 deputies were deployed between the competent authorities as the Central Bank and the Ministry of oil and the Office of financial supervision and the Ministry of finance these funds to be prosecuted.
He in effect told delegates "morning," Omar Abdel Latif, that the Commission is now global companies in the disappearance of the money instead on those firms that were achieved at the time, in addition to the Office of financial supervision, stating that he was the Commissioner for the administration of Iraqi funds so he could edit instruments amounts it deems is appropriate, as he could that edits amounting to billions of dollars and placed in the "Development Fund for Iraq» Iraq all of the proceeds from the oil-exportThe United Nations, withdraw from these revenues 5 percent which compensation to Kuwait for the 1991 war.
And applicable to all amounts paid at the time was wasted without censorship or check whether the Office of financial supervision, companies or firms, noting that the US Inspector General had indicated that these funds do not have documents and do not exist and thus how her disappearance took place mainly as b» exotic».
For his part, reduced legal expert Tariq war the usefulness of such governmental and parliamentary moves. war said in a telephone interview» Sabah»: «could not achieve such movements as a result, because the money paid to us at the time, the US Inspector General is revealed where corruption cases».
The war that the money already poured into the Iraqi market without leaving a trail on the ground., but stressed the possibility to ask the US side of the House provide lists of disbursements and object of expenditure and received them.
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