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Chalabi: Article 25 of the budget "instrument of forgiveness" for abusers of public funds
Date: Thursday, 16.02.2012 9:51
Baghdad / term
student chairman of the parliamentary fact-finding commission to settle the accounts of the Development Fund for Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi, on Wednesday, to raise the Article 25 of the draft budget law for the current year, while as "an instrument of forgiveness" for bypassing the public money.
Said Ahmed Chalabi, at a press conference at Parliament House and attended by "long, that" the fact-finding committee parliamentary for the settlement of the accounts of the Development Fund for Iraq to support spending on the balance sheet during the past years, "saying it" put its observations on the budget bill before the Parliament for the year the current. "
said Chalabi that "the Commission demanding the lifting of Article 25 of this law because it allowed the Finance Minister to extinguish ancestor from 01.01.2004 until 31.12.2011, spent part of them without the allocation of budgets," noting that "this article should increase the budget bill because it serves as an instrument of the forgiveness of all abusers, who spent public money without appropriations in the budget contrary to the Financial Administration Act No. 95 of 2004. "
and Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, in December of 2011, for approving the government to balance Iraq in 2012, which of 117 trillion dinars and a deficit of 14 trillion dinars, and the adoption of the production of 2.0006 million barrels per day and the rate is $ 85 per barrel.
The speaker of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi, in the 28 of November 2011, the need to expedite the completion of the annual budget for 2012 during a short period, confirming the need not to prejudice the rights of the provinces in pumping money into ventures and investments, as he emphasized the International Fund that works to reduce and reduce the current budget in the budget for Iraq in 2012.
The Iraqi Ministry of Planning announced (22 September 2011), that the financial budget for the year 2012, will be between $ 112 and $ 120 billion, confirming that 35% of which are earmarked for the investment budget, while the balance of 2011, the last 81.9 billion dollar deficit of $ 13.3 billion.
of his turn, a member of the Finance Committee representative Haytham Jubouri Presidency of the Council of Representatives responsibility delay the ratification of the financial budget for the year 2012.
He Jubouri told all of Iraq that "the delay in approving the budget by Parliament Tcespb in disrupting the progress and the money inside the Iraqi market, noting that" when money was moved into the market will invest in both public and private sectors but remain frozen, it will cause a loss significant economic in the country. "
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