Iraqi News Highlights Sunday Afternoon 10-23-22
Iraqi News Highlights Sunday Afternoon 10-23-22
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Nabil Al Marsoumi Assures Nina Of The Need To Expedite The Formation Of The Government And Present A New Budget Next Month
Sunday 23 October 2022 11:43 | Economic Number of readings: 225 Baghdad / NINA / - The economic expert, Nabil Al-Marsoumi, stressed the need to expedite the formation of the government and present a new budget next month. He told the National Iraqi News Agency ( NINA ) that it is supposed to present the next year's budget on the first of next November to ensure its approval before the end of the year or at most the beginning of next year.
Al-Marsoumi added that the political blocs should expedite the formation of the next government to take it upon themselves first to prepare the budget for the next year and send it to Parliament to enter into discussions and amendments that we hope will be simple to be approved quickly.
He explained that approving an early investment service budget would be the first step to success for the new government./ End 3 https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?Key=1009320
With A Deposit Of Love (120) Million Dollars.. A Bond That Reveals New Information Regarding The Theft Of The Century
Political | 03:55 - 10/23/2022 Baghdad - Mawazine News On Sunday, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Mustafa Jabbar Sanad, revealed new information regarding the theft of the tax authority funds, known in the media as “the theft of the century.”
Sanad said in a tweet via Twitter, which was followed by / Mawazine News /, "Now we have begun to open the violations of the General Company for Iraqi Ports, and to prove the involvement of the same tax network in the Faw port file, as well as there is a relationship between Daewoo and the whale."
He added, "120 million dollars is a deposit of love." Ended 29/R77
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A Parliamentary Committee Reveals The Fate Of The Tax Money: Part Of It Was Smuggled Abroad
Posted On2022-10-23 By Sotaliraq The Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed the fate of the stolen funds from the secretariats of the Tax Authority, pointing out that part of it was smuggled outside Iraq and another was invested in buying real estate.
Committee member Ikhlas Al-Dulaimi said, "The competent parliamentary committees held a series of meetings during the past days with the aim of discussing the file of the theft of 3.71 trillion dinars from the secretariats of the Tax Authority."
Al-Dulaimi added, "The meetings included officials in the Ministry of Finance and the Tax and Customs Authorities, to find out the circumstances of the accident."
She pointed out that "the thefts took place over a whole year, from September of last year to October of this year, until all these sums were spent."
Al-Dulaimi explained, "The General Tax Authority is the first responsible for disbursing these amounts without any right."
And she indicated, "Five companies were the ones who were specialized in exchange, and they came without authorization from the original custodian of the trusts, and these companies do not hold any agency or legal authority."
Al-Dulaimi believes, "The Tax Authority admitted that the exchange took place without any priorities, and therefore it is considered stolen from the state treasury."
She stressed, "The Director General of Taxes confirmed the presence of large parties that participated in the thefts, and it is a large network that includes all institutions."
Al-Dulaimi stated, “The Chairman of the Finance Committee in the former parliament, Haitham Al-Jubouri, personally acted on him without the knowledge of the rest of the committee members, directed a letter not to audit the guarantee account in public taxes, and the Council of Ministers requested the Financial Supervision Bureau not to audit this account.”
She stressed, "The Tax Authority invoked these two arguments, and there was no control over the amounts, leaving the door open to illegal behavior."
Al-Dulaimi explained, "The Minister of Finance sent a letter to the Tax Authority on the 11th of last year, preventing it from disposing of funds without returning to the ministry."
And she added, "The Tax Authority did not comply with the minister's letter, but rather relied on the non-interference directives issued by the Council of Ministers and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Finance Committee."
Al-Dulaimi called on the judicial and supervisory authorities, represented by the competent courts and the Integrity Commission, to exercise their role in holding the negligent accountable and recovering the stolen funds.
He continued, "The companies that received the funds were established on the same dates, and they are newly established only a year ago or less, and the funds were distributed to them in a way that suggests that they shared the shares."
Al-Dulaimi added, "A part of these sums was smuggled and the other was invested in real estate, but we point out that all the measures currently taken by the relevant authorities are not at the required level."
For her part, the chairperson of the committee, Mahasin Hamdoun, said that "the previous meetings discussed many issues, most notably the mechanism for disbursing the stolen amounts, and we diagnosed the mistakes for which a number of people are responsible."
Hamdoun continued, "These errors begin with the book canceling the supervision of the Financial Supervision Bureau on the amounts of deposits in taxes and customs, and ending with the disbursement of funds by non-solid or newly established companies."
She noted, "The committee heard what officials in the Ministry of Finance said about the circumstances of the case," stressing that "the negligent people are present and have been referred to the judiciary."
And she noted, "The committee decided to withdraw its hand from the file, as it is under the watch of the judiciary, which is the competent courts that identify negligent people and impose legal penalties against them."
And the Supreme Judicial Council announced in an official statement, “the issuance of summonses against the Director General of the General Tax Authority and his assistant, the supervisor of the financial and control department, the deputy of the financial department and the director of the financial department.”
The statement added, "The judiciary issued arrest warrants against the owners of the companies and placed a precautionary seizure on their accounts, in whose favor the tax trusts were issued."
He pointed out, "The formation of a joint audit committee from the Ministry of Finance, the General Tax Authority, Rafidain Bank and the Integrity Commission to audit the disbursed amounts."
The statement confirmed, "The Second Karkh Investigation Court, which is specialized in integrity issues, decided to bring in a member of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives for the previous session on the charge of intentional damage to state funds in accordance with the provisions of Article 340 of the Penal Code."
The statement went on, "The accused issued a recommendation to disburse the tax deposits before completing the audits by the regulatory authorities." LINK
In The Document ... The Ministry Of Finance Decides To Seize The Funds Of 5 Senior Employees Accused Of Stealing Approximately 3 Billion US Dollars
Sunday 23 October 2022 11:09 | Economic Number of readings: 384 Baghdad / NINA / - The Ministry of Finance issued a decision to seize the said and immovable funds of 5 senior employees accused of stealing approximately 3 billion US dollars of the Iraqi people's money./ End 9 https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=1009318
Alia Nassif: Three Of The Companies Involved In Stealing Fake Tax Deposits
Representative Alia Nassif confirmed that three of the companies involved in theft of fictitious tax deposits were registered last year, calling for defining the investigation path towards the real accused and their accomplices and not wasting time hosting people unrelated to the case.
Nassif said in a statement today: "Three of the five fake companies were registered in 2021, and the anti-money laundering official addressed the Registrar of Companies to inquire about the extent of the sobriety of the companies, and he replied that they are sober companies, and from here the disaster began and the companies began the process of looting tax deposits."
She added: "The parliamentary committees hosted a series of officials from several bodies and departments, including the head of the customs authority, and it became clear that the customs secretariats do not have any problems and are subject to controls and laws, and that this theft did not occur during his tenure when he was director of taxes before the former director general,
The Parliamentary Finance Committee also hosted the general manager who came after him, Samer Abdel Hadi, and he remained in the position for two months, and he also has nothing to do with the case. Therefore, we must avoid mixing papers and making investigations derail, and avoid putting the names of departments and people unrelated to the case.
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