DASHTA D-NINEVEH: Nineveh Governate officials sentenced for wasting eight billion dinars in Iraq

The Federal Integrity Commission in Iraq revealed that two seven-year prison sentences were issued in absentia against two officials in Nineveh Governorate who squandered public money.

Federal Integrity Commission in Iraq issued a statement saying, “The Nineveh Criminal Court, the first authority, issued its decision to convict the former governor of Nineveh for spending sums of money on the camps of the National Mobilization (Zlikan, Dobrdan, Makhmour, Rabia) contrary to the controls and instructions, in addition to exceeding his financial powers of spending on items outside the budget, and his violation of an article of the instructions for implementing the federal general budget for the year 2015.”

The statement added: “In addition to the exaggeration in prices, it led to a waste of public money amounting to 2.7 billion dinar.”

The statement said, “The Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court decided to convict the director of the Projects Department in Nineveh Governorate, in the matter of not settling the amount of the advance for the establishment of infrastructure for the camps for displaced people in the province,” noting that “the amount of the advance received from the Ministry of Migration and Displacement amounted to five billion dinar.”

After the court reviewed the evidence in the two cases, represented by the statements of the legal representatives of Nineveh Governorate and the report submitted by the External Audit Department of the Integrity Commission, in addition to the books issued by the General Secretariat of the House of Representatives, Nineveh Governorate and the Popular Mobilization leadership there, the court found the evidence sufficient and convincing enough to convict, according to the statement.