January 15, 2023
Baghdad / Obelisk: The Federal Integrity Commission announced, on Saturday, January 15, 2023, that its investigative procedures contributed to returning an amount of about 1.4 billion dinars for the benefit of the Reconstruction Authority in Najaf Governorate, indicating that the amount represents part of a deposit belonging to the Reconstruction Authority in the province.
The Commission’s Investigation Department stated that the investigative body’s procedures led to the return of an amount of one billion and 385 million dinars to the Reconstruction Authority in Najaf, noting that despite the issuance of a decision by the Najaf Court of First Instance since 2018 to oblige the bank to pay the amount of the deposit to the governorate, the bank refused to pay The amount during the period prior to the investigation of the criminal case filed against the bank by the Najaf Investigation Office of the Integrity Commission.
She explained that the bank released an amount of (5,515,990,162) billion dinars for the benefit of the Turkish company without notifying the governorate and sending an account statement of that. Despite his agreement to the condition of the province not to move the amount of the deposit; Except with the approval of the accounting unit in the governorate and the signature of the governor exclusively, noting that the reconstruction authority notified the bank to stop the procedures and demanded that it return the deposit it had released.
The department confirmed that despite the approval of the Najaf First Instance Court’s decision to oblige the bank to pay the amount of the deposit to the governorate, no action was taken in this regard before the Integrity Commission began its investigative procedures, stressing that it would continue to follow up the case until the bank paid the full amount of the deposit.
The department added that the amount, which was returned, represents part of the deposit amounting to (6,452,157,750) billion dinars, which was deposited by the Reconstruction Authority at the United Bank for National Investment branch in the governorate, for the benefit of a Turkish contracting company, which is entrusted with a 5-star hotel construction project belonging to the governorate. Najaf.
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