Baghdad – IA
Today, Wednesday, the staff of the Federal Integrity Commission were able to carry out arrest operations against two accused of bribery and manipulation, in addition to monitoring the waste of more than four hundred million dinars, and seizing expired medical materials in Dhi Qar.
The Authority’s Government Media and Communications Office said in a statement received by the (INA): “The staff of the Dhi Qar Investigation Office moved to the Real Estate Registration Directorate in Nasiriyah and caught one of the Directorate’s surveyors red-handed in receiving a bribe red-handed,” indicating that “the arrest process was completed.” According to the provisions of Resolution (160 of 1983), after the accused received the bribe amount in exchange for completing a transaction in violation of the law.
The office added that it “observed an accused who purchased receipts for transactions allocating plots of land and official documents (national card – residence card – civil status ID) from citizens for the purpose of allocating them and selling them to other people in exchange for sums of money, with the aim of obtaining plots of land in the names of other people,” noting. “The accused was arrested after setting up an elaborate ambush by the staff of the Commission’s investigation office.”
He explained that “the Dhi Qar Reconstruction Fund caused a waste of public money as a result of not taking legal measures against a general contracting company to which the project to deliver electricity to a group of villages in the Al-Dawaya district was assigned at an amount of (2,335,309,000) dinars, despite exceeding the contractual period for completing the project.” “, noting that “the report of the External Audit Division stated that the Fund did not collect the amount of the late fine imposed on the company under the terms of the contract, which totaled (426,193,710) dinars.”
He continued, “The office’s field emergency team noticed during an inspection tour at Nasiriyah Teaching Hospital the presence of expired diabetes examination strips,” pointing out that “the hospital administration allowed the use of these strips to examine patients hospitalized despite this.”