Iraq Transparency Commission: The former prime minister of Iraq should be arrested in the embezzlement case.
The Transparency Commission (FCI), which is an Iraqi government organization and is responsible for investigating corruption in the public sector, on Thursday sent a message to three high-ranking institutions demanding the issuance of a judicial prosecution and arrest warrant for former Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi. The criminal investigation case was called “theft of the century”.
The Iraqi “Al-Maluma” news site reported on Thursday that Ali Turki, a member of the Cleanliness Commission of the Iraqi Parliament, said in an interview with this Iraqi media that the current government will seek to reassure Iraqi citizens about the fight against corruption. should show his determination in investigating and following up the looted property in the “theft of the century” case of former Iraqi government officials and the prosecution of the perpetrators of this crime.
A member of the Sadeghoon faction of the Iraqi parliament, pointing out that he sent separate letters to the Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani, the Transparency and Anti-Corruption Committee, and the Judicial Court in issuing the order to prosecute the perpetrators of the theft of the century case, added: in this criminal case, I have asked the above institutions to arrest Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the former prime minister of Iraq, and all his relatives for their role in the financial corruption of the theft of the century; Because he and all his relatives have been proven to be involved in the financial corruption of this case.
A member of the Iraqi Transperacy Commission emphasized that if an arrest warrant is issued for al-Kazemi and his accomplices in this major financial corruption case, citizens’ trust in the government’s regulatory bodies and judicial institutions will definitely be gained once again.
Most of the members of the previous Iraqi interim government, including advisers, general managers, and people involved in corruption cases in the previous period, have fled abroad, and many were arrested at airports and border crossings.
It should be mentioned that earlier, the Sadeghoon Iraqi parliamentary faction announced that Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi is accused in many cases of corruption and involvement in the assassination of Pirouzi commanders (Shahid Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis).
