Baghdad – IA
Today, Wednesday, the Federal Integrity Commission announced the issuance of arrest and summons orders against three defendants in the branch of the General Authority for Taxes in the governorate and the Kirkuk Electricity Distribution Department. Charged with tampering with tax payment receipts and embezzlement.
The Government Information and Communications Office said in a statement received by the (INA): “The Kirkuk Investigation Office team moved to the General Authority for Taxes, Kirkuk Branch 1, for the purpose of investigating and fundamentally auditing the presence of suspicions of corruption attributed to the Real Estate Division official and the department’s auditor through manipulation.” In receipts for paying taxes and seizing their amounts.”
He added, “Investigations led to the revelation that the Real Estate Division official wrote a receipt for receipt of revenues and tax deposits on the transaction of a commercial property on which stores, commercial magazines, and a café were built on another property,” indicating that “the owners of the property paid the due tax, but it was not delivered to the The Public Treasury, pointing to the decision of the competent investigating judge to bring in the complainants (the official in charge of the Real Estate Division in the department and the auditor).”
He explained, “In the Kirkuk Electricity Distribution Branch, incidents were detected related to one of the department’s employees embezzling the sums of collection of electricity fees paid by subscribers,” warning of “the decision of the judge of the Kirkuk Investigative Court, which is competent to look into integrity cases, to issue an arrest warrant and conduct a due diligence inspection against the accused.” “.