Umm Qasr Port officials tamper with granting customs permits to several companies without paying fees

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2023-10-20 15:13:02

October 20, 2023

Baghdad/Al-Masala Al-Hadath: The Federal Integrity Commission announced today, Friday, that its staff in Basra were able to detect tampering in (19) traffic transactions at the center of the Grand Welcome Square in the port of Umm Qasr, and to arrest an accused who had accepted a bribe from a female citizen. In exchange for facilitating the completion of her retirement transaction.

A statement by the Authority’s Investigation Department, speaking about the two operations carried out pursuant to two judicial memorandums, stated that “a team from the Authority’s Investigation Directorate in Basra Governorate, after moving to the Customs Center at the Great Welcome Square in Umm Qasr Port, was able to seize (13) customs transactions.” “, indicating that “the seized customs transactions were tampered with and a border sequence was issued for more than one declaration to several companies without paying the customs duties and taxes that must be paid to the state.”
The department added, “In a separate operation, the team seized (6) customs transactions belonging to one of the companies whose goods delivery orders had been tampered with and forged, in addition to changing the weights of the goods in each delivery order. In order not to pay customs duties and taxes in full,” noting that “the manipulation of the weights was very large.”
She continued, “The staff of the Commission’s Investigation Directorate in the governorate caught one of the investigators red-handed in receiving (4,500,000) million dinars; In exchange for facilitating the completion of a pension transaction for her deceased husband, and receiving the pension and financial benefits,” she noted, noting that “the accused – who works as a supervisor in the Social Welfare Department in Basra – admitted his collusion with two employees in the department, after obstructing the pension transaction, and taking care of its completion, and then dividing the amount.” Between the three.”

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