Baghdad – conscious
Today, Thursday, the Integrity Commission announced the arrest of an official at the Missan Oil Company on charges of embezzling 8 billion dinars.
An integrity statement received by the (INA) stated, “An operation was carried out in cooperation and coordination with the Falcons Intelligence Cell, as a team from the Commission’s investigation office in Maysan Governorate was able to implement the judicial arrest warrant issued two years ago against the fugitive accused, Director of the Payments Department in The Financial Authority of the Maysan Oil Company, in the center of the capital, Baghdad.
He explained, “The accused repeatedly disbursed (26) documents for the years (2020 and 2021) related to operational advances, bonuses, external delegations, and the salaries of members of the Energy Police,” pointing out that “these documents were classified without their accounts, and then their amounts were seized and embezzled.”
He pointed out that “these amounts are estimated at (8,611,898,750) billion dinars,” noting that “a formal report was prepared for the operation, which was carried out in accordance with the provisions of Article (316) of the Amended Penal Code No. (111 of 1969). “To present him, along with the accused, to the judge of the investigative court specialized in examining integrity cases in Maysan, to complete the legal procedures and decide the fate of the accused.”
On the nineteenth of this January, the Authority announced the arrest of (8) defendants in the Maysan Oil Company who work as accountants and auditors in the company’s financial authority, following the violations and financial violations committed in disbursing operational advances.