The arrest warrant for four former Iraqi government officials in connection with the case of theft.
According to Shafaq News, the Transparency Committee of the Federal Government of Iraq announced the issuance of an arrest warrant and investigation against a number of senior officials of the former government of this country on charges of facilitating the seizure of tax deposits.
According to this report, the investigation department of the Iraqi Federal Transparency Committee issued a statement in this regard and announced: Following the discovery of new evidence that other figures of the government of Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the former prime minister of Iraq, were involved in the crime of stealing tax deposits, the court ” Karkh issued an arrest and investigation order against four officials of the previous government.
This department announced that an arrest warrant and judicial investigation has been issued against Ali Abdul Amir Allawi, the former finance minister, Raed Johi, the head of the office, Mashreq Abbas, a political consultant, and Ahmed Nejati, the personal secretary of the prime minister in the former government of Iraq. . Also, the order to confiscate their movable and immovable assets has been issued based on the provisions of Article (184/A) of the Iraqi Criminal Procedure Law.
It should be noted that the “theft of the century” refers to the disappearance of 3.7 trillion Iraqi dinars (about two and a half billion dollars) from the income of tax deposits, which was reported by several relevant officials about two months before the end of the term of the former government headed by Mustafa Al-Kazemi. It was revealed. “Theft of the century” became a common topic of Iraqi people and political circles until its voice reached outside of Iraq and Arab and Western media covered it.
