Baghdad, The Federal Integrity Commission announced that its efforts to pursue and follow up the recovery of fugitive convicts resulted in the arrest of two convicts inside the territory of the Sultanate of Oman.
The recovery department of the authority stated: “The Omani authorities arrested the fugitive convicts, the former Director General of Urban Planning in the Ministry of Planning and the former Director General of the Anbar Agriculture Department, based on international arrest warrants and recovery files organized by the department in cooperation with the competent courts, according to Radio Search Report issued by the Council of Arab Interior Ministers.
The department added that the fugitive convict, the former Director General of Urban Planning at the Ministry of Planning, had been sentenced in absentia by the Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court to 6 years in prison, Based on the provisions of Article (340) of the Penal Code for his association with other persons convicted of causing damage to public funds for not imposing late fines on the British company responsible for the contract to modernize the basic design of the city of Najaf, while the Anbar Criminal Court issued decisions in absentia in (7) cases against the convict, the former Director General of the Anbar Agriculture Department, with imprisonment for a period of (52) years based on the provisions of Articles (316 and 340) of the Penal Code.
The department praised the efforts of the competent authorities in the Sultanate of Oman and its cooperation with the Iraqi authorities in arresting the convicts, stressing that the recent measures taken by the commission have become a threat to the safe havens for the fugitives, pointing out that although the recent departure restrictions for convicts from Iraq were for (Qatar and Turkey), except that their arrest in the territory of the Sultanate of Oman took place according to the research broadcast that was issued against them based on the international arrest warrant with the Iraqi judicial authorities, which was requested and organized by the Commission’s Recovery Department.
It confirmed that the recovery files were organized very quickly and sent to the Supreme Judicial Council – the Presidency of the Public Prosecution; for the purpose of sending it to the competent authorities in the Sultanate of Oman through diplomatic channels; as a prelude to recovering them.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency