The Iranians are abusing the already shaky Iraqi economy and according to a report in a Persian opposition media outlet, the Revolutionary Guards are smuggling Millions of dollars from Iraq to the accounts of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran with the assistance of the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad
The TV channel ‘Iran International’ publishes that a member of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, smuggles millions of dollars from Iraq to the accounts of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran in cooperation with the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad.
According to the report, Mohammad Tajan Jhari, the financial director of Unit 400 of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, deposits the required amount into the Guards’ account at Ansar Bank in Tehran.
The network is managed by Mahmoud Hosnizadeh, a veteran of the Quds Force in Iraq, with the assistance of Iraqi citizens, Maitham Hamza, Qassem Daraji, and Maitham Sadji. Along with Tajan Jari’s executive arm in Iraq, Mustafa Pak Batin, an Iranian embassy employee and member of the Quds Force, who receives dollars from money changers in Iraq after issuing a certificate of deposit in Tehran.
The aforementioned money was withdrawn by the activists of the Revolutionary Guards in Iraq, and thus they launder the capital and simply empty the Iraqi capital market. This financial network harms the Iraqi economy in order to circumvent the sanctions in favor of the Revolutionary Guards. The Revolutionary Guards also use Iranian regime embassy personnel to defraud the Iraqi banking system.
About a year ago, during Iraj Masjadi’s work as Iraq’s ambassador to Iran, the Al-Arabiya channel published a document that showed that more than 60 billion dinars of shares of Iranian energy companies were deposited in the Iranian embassy’s account in the Commercial Bank of Iraq, which was supposed to be used for the embassy’s expenses. But it came into the hands of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
To prevent money laundering, the US central bank ordered private Iraqi banks to fill out a digital form for every transfer, which includes all the details, including the destination of the transfer. But many private banks did not register their details in this electronic system, and get the dollars they need from the black currency market In Baghdad, in the last three months, the value of the Iraqi national currency has fallen by more than 10%.
The United States recently announced that it will impose sanctions on 16 Iraqi banks. Iran demands from Baghdad approximately four billion dollars from the sale of electricity and gas. Over the past few years, the United States has authorized Iraqi banks to give money to Iran, so that it can be used for food, medicine and other essential products for the people.
But a series of Iraqi banks cooperate with the Revolutionary Guards, most of them were established only to deal with the Iranian government, and this issue led to an increase in the price of the dollar in Iraq, affecting Iraq negatively.