Despite all the stringent measures put in place by the Iraqi administration led by Al-Kazemi since taking office in 2020, it appears that corruption has changed its course in Iraq. Every morning, locals report seeing crimes that are worse than those committed the previous day.
Even though Iraq is ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the International Transparency Index for corruption, the Iraqis did not anticipate the scale of the widespread corruption inside the governmental apparatus and the likelihood of thefts of this magnitude.
Iraqis were shocked by the largest embezzlement in the nation’s history after 2.5 billion dollars vanished from the Secretariat of the General Tax Authority’s account, which was placed in the Rafidain Bank, in a new instance of corruption spreading throughout the country.
For his part, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the caretaker prime minister of Iraq, oversaw an inquiry into possible irregularities in the Ministry of Finance’s tax trust payment procedure.
A document from the Integrity Commission’s inquiry that was leaked states that the money was taken between January and August and that it was transferred to five separate companies’ accounts using dozens of checks before being immediately withdrawn from the accounts.
In a related context, Iraqi parliamentary parties called on the Public Prosecution Authority; To prevent senior officials from traveling outside the country, until the end of the investigative procedures, against the backdrop of the disappearance of two and a half billion dollars from the public tax funds.
The new Prime Minister was then tweeted by Muhammad Shi’a Al-Sudani, who stated: “His government will fight corruption, and that this will be at the top of his agenda.
Al-Sudani stressed that he would not hesitate to “take real measures to curb the corruption that was rudely ravaged in the joints of the state and its institutions,” emphasising that it will not be permitted to be permissible for Iraqis, as happened with the General Authority of Taxes’ funds in the Rafidain Bank. Al-Sudani added in a tweet via Twitter.
Ali Abdul Amir Allawi, the Iraqi government’s minister of finance, resigned from his position in August, emphasising that his resignation was due to the state’s joints being corrupt.
On October 11th, he also cast a vote in the Iraqi parliament to terminate the employment of Abdul Jabbar, the acting minister of finance, on the grounds that it conflicted with his duties as the country’s oil minister.
It is important to note that according to statistics from the Integrity Commission, there were 11,605 officials, including 54 ministers, involved in corruption throughout the nation last year.
Invitations were sent out in order to avoid travel. The disappearance of $ 2.5 billion raises controversy in Iraq
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