CoI confirms that it has established an investigative team entrusted with the task of investigating the issue of currency damage in Al-Rafidain Bank, based on the letter of the Supreme Judicial Council - Presidency of Public Prosecution received on 14/11/2018.

Among the tasks assigned to the team is conducting the necessary investigations and detection on the currency damage, and the determining the roles and responsibilities of individuals, entities and negligence.

CoI, through its monitoring of the media, had followed a statement by a female MP at the beginning of November through a satellite channel, in which she referred to the details of the case. The monitoring was referred to CoI’s Office of Prevention, which prepared on 6/11/2018 an initial report on the case.

Here, CoI would like to indicate that it has not received any notification or reporting prior to this date and no criminal case has been recorded concerning the incident of 2013.

While reiterating that it will soon announce the results of its investigations on the case, CoI calls upon all media to be careful and cautious when transmitting news or information concerning the work of CoI and its activities.

It also stresses that the sole authorized person who states in the name of CoI is its Commissioner, as well as its official website; it does not have any other window other than those, denying at the same time the information transmitted by the media falsely attributed to a source in CoI that falsely claimed that the details of the case have been in CoI since 2013.