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Najafi looking with the U.S. Inspector General fate of billions of dollars lost
Bowen: 82 U.S. under investigation .. And Iraqi officials, including involved
Baghdad: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat
days after the announcement of the U.S. Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen, for the loss of tens of billions of fund due to corruption, search Iraqi parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi with the issue of the missing funds. A statement issued by the Office of Najafi yesterday, received the «Middle East» copy of it, that «Najafi reviewed with Bowen update research and audit files in theft and corruption, which affected fund the reconstruction of Iraq, as Mr. Stewart explanation which he explained the efforts in the follow-up and check these files fully.
The statement added that Bowen stressed that «82 U.S. citizens, including officers in the U.S. Army is being interrogated about the subject, and to brokers, officials and Iraqi businessmen have been involved in this process. In this context, he stressed Nujaifi, according to the statement on «the need to prosecute the corrupt fugitives legally and judicially, and that the Iraqi parliament has formed a committee to follow up this crime and will be the adoption of reports of the reconstruction program in some workstations for tangible progress. He pointed out that «such corruption gave a distorted picture of the truth about the fate of these funds that were supposed to be used in the construction of major projects and contribute to the fulfillment of infrastructure, electricity and other service matters feel that Iraq today is in dire need.
For its part, criticized member of the Integrity Committee in the Iraqi Parliament, high Nassif, told the «Middle East», head of the Iraqi parliament because of «non-involvement of the Parliamentary Committee, which was formed for this purpose, headed by Dr. Ahmad Chalabi, as it was the involvement of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee in this because the committee is meeting that followed and still follow this mysterious file. She Nassif that «the United States and through its employees and officials in Iraq, led by the civil governor Paul Bremer is established and encouraged financial corruption in Iraq», noting that «Bremer when asked about the fate of some $ 20 billion has been wasted in corruption without get reconstruction operations said that this is not the Iraqi funds, but U.S. funds, while it is true because it is Iraqi funds, it is oil money for food and medicine, along with funds of donor countries which constitute between 17 to 20 billion dollars. Nassif explained that «the Americans during the early years were given funds for the purpose of reconstruction in Baghdad and the provinces of without proper aspects of exchange and without documents, which means that the door to corruption will be wide open.
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