Head of the Integrity Commission, Judge Haidar Hanoun, affirmed that Prime Minister Muhammad Al-Sudani is keen on the citizen being an active partner in the process of combating corruption.

Hanoun said in a press conference: The issue of tax trusts is the biggest corruption issue discovered to this day, and it was mixed with treason, and it will not die, and the perpetrators should not bet on the passage of time to forget it.

He added that the country whose wanted persons and fugitives hold its nationality must ensure full cooperation.

He explained that a red notice was organized for each of the director of the Prime Minister's office in the previous government and the director of the office of the head of the intelligence service in the previous government that was headed by Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, as they both hold American citizenship and British nationality. A red notice was also organized against the former Minister of Finance in the government headed by Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, who holds British citizenship.

He said: I call on all countries, especially those countries whose nationalities are held by those wanted, to cooperate with us.

He added that a red notice was organized against the political advisor to the former prime minister currently residing in the city of Dubai, and we did not prove his nationality, which he holds, as well as a former employee of the Integrity Commission and his wife, who hold Turkish citizenship.

Hanoun stressed the continuation of the Commission's efforts to retrieve the wanted persons, Hamdiya Al-Jaf and Nawras Hadi from the United Arab Emirates, and we hope for the cooperation of the Arab and international authorities, especially Interpol, to facilitate the procedures for extradition and receipt of those wanted to the Iraqi judiciary.

He said that our efforts are continuing to recover the money seized by the director of the retirement authority branch in Anbar, and today 100 billion Iraqi dinars have been recovered.

Hanoun stressed that "it is a crime that an assigned person of public job to be a thief."

He added that "we are trying to pressure some countries to extradite those accused of corruption.

The head of the Integrity Commission, Judge Haider Hanoun, announced that "one of those wanted in the case of theft of tax trusts acquired no less than 400 billion dinars, and another defendant acquired 200 billion dinars," indicating that "the least amount for one of the accused is 100 billion dinars."

He said that the number of defendants convicted in this case is 48, most of whom hold governmental and legislative positions in the previous parliament, special grades, consultants, businessmen, intelligence officials, directors of private banks and others of different nationalities.

He announced that "the commission will sign an agreement with the Higher Institute in the United States, as well as a similar agreement with the British side to strengthen anti-corruption measures, as well as with other Arab countries."

Hanoun said: We will reopen and activate recovery cases and previous corruption files, including the former Minister of Electricity, as he holds American citizenship.

He added: We have defendants and other funds being recovered from the countries of Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia in the case of theft of tax trusts.

Hanoun stressed that "the release of some of the defendants convicted in the case of theft of tax trusts," Nour Zuhair" and the head of the Finance Committee in the previous parliament, is a judicial procedure that was carried out on temporary bail and does not clear their name of legal accountability."

Hanoun said, in answer to a question by the correspondent of the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / in the press conference held today, that "all legal and judicial procedures are still ongoing against all the accused, and they will be referred to the competent trial court to be prosecuted and tried according to the law to receive their just punishment."

Source: National Iraqi News Agency