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Chalabi: money laundering and smuggling operations out of the corruption behind the low price of the Iraqi dinar
Monday, May 21 / May 2012 22:47
[Baghdad - where]
President of the Iraqi National Congress Ahmed Chalabi, the money laundering and smuggling out the reason for the low price of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar on the rise recently.
The role of price has risen from 1,200 dinars to the dollar to 1300 dinars, but he began to decline in the past two days.
And Chalabi denied in an interview with Channel Asia, its is said that Syria and Iran, which are subject to sanctions and the prohibition of two international and behind the purchase of the dollar from the Iraqi market, described this view as "naive", saying where you have these large amounts of Iraqi currency to buy dollars.
He revealed that the central bank sold in April 3180 billion at 1170 dinars to the dollar and a large amount of dollars equal to 3.5 trillion dinars and said we have to ask and look who has this amount of Iraqi currency to buy a large amount of dollars? Adding that the government and the leak is the only that can do so.
According to Chalabi, said five Iraqi banks bought during the month of April 2 billion and $ 73 million and this amount is too large for the assets of these banks if we want to know the truth we have to know where you came this money and ask who they are clients of these banks who bought this amount of dollars and turned it to the outside.
He said the government does not need the dollars in revenue because the oil that comes to it is the dollar
He said that most of these amounts are Mtserbat such as government contracts and payments made and bought a large portion of the dollar, which turns out in money laundering and the corruption in which large batches
He pointed to an improvement rate of the dinar during the past few days and said that the Central Bank to cover the full currency of more than 100 percent and there is no danger to the Iraqi currency as well, which happened to the currency in Syria and Turkey in the past year
Chalabi announced that the solution to this problem is to eliminate money laundering. / End
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