*****Fourth licensing round attracted an international fraud*****
29/8/2011 0:00
Baghdad / Iraqi future:
*****revealed the information center of economic fraud international by unknown persons over the *****falsification of official letters representing the ministries of oil and finance *****can address through which international oil companies***** through its call for companies are eligible to compete on the licensing round,***** the fourth alternative of the three companies***** that failed in the qualification for the payment of administrative fee of $ 250 thousand dollars***** for the alleged of the Ministry of Finance.***** A statement by the Center: The center contacted the Ministry of Oil to ensure the authenticity of the documents and the party that stands behind it as explained spokesman for the Oil Ministry, Assem Jihad said the documents were not unfounded and that it had not been issued by the Ministry of oil and that the goal of which harms the transparency of licensing rounds, which is the most open and transparent in the world that all stages of Damocles-profile media and in detail. He stressed that the ministry closed the door, applications for qualification in the sixth month of June, and announced the results of rehabilitation in the seventh month of August this is the final results can not be modified, according to strict controls adopted by the ministry in order to compete not only international companies of high quality. The statement quoted Jihad that »the ministry was keen to keep up with all the steps conferences releases and complete data for each procedure, a special tour of licenses and warn the international companies from doing business with any state outside the context stated in the media ». For his part, director of licenses and contracts in the ministry, the« oil ministry denies categorically demand that the companies are eligible or not eligible to pay any payment for qualifying to participate in the licensing round, the fourth, whether for or on behalf of the Ministry of Finance, and stresses at the same time retaining its legal right to pursue those behind these books forged and forwarded to the judiciary.
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