Commission of Integrity unveiled about the large amount of money had been drawn before the resignation of the ex-mayor of Mosel. The Investigations showed many employees at the ex-mayor office were detained for embezzling and misappropriating the public assets.
Public money were not at banks
The Investigations Office within the CoI has formed a high-level team for detecting information that the ex-mayor had drawn money from the amounts allocated to renovation of Nineveh province. That money was locked in safes at the mayor office instead, as regulations, at banks.
(44) billion dinars were drawn from allocations of the province development
The investigative team moved to one bank where it put hand on (5,000,000,000) billion dinars were deposited at the bank with another (8,000,000,000) billion dinars later be deposited there by the local management-engineering director and a female employee in the mayor office. The team moved to the mayor office and had the related documents of these amounts, in addition to documents of drawing (12,936,439,050) billion dinars were allocated to villages development, and (44,735,557,450) billion dinars were allocated to the province development for 2018. Seven employees were detected accused of managing groups related to the fugitive ex-mayor.
Bills of more than 76 billion dinars were detected
The Investigations Office said that its teams managed to detect (7,500,000,000) billion dinars in cash were with the head and a member of projects tenders committee. In addition, an amount of (1,425,000,000) billion dinars and check of amount (74,000,000) million dinars were locked in a safe at the office of the local management-engineering director in the mayor office. In addition to (1,200,000,000) billion dinars were in a house of an accused employee. The Investigative office added that it had detected (3,222,425,000) billion dinars of the public money were illegally deposited in personal accounts of some employees. The investigation process leaded to detected more documents of large amounts acceded (76,000,000,000) billion IQ dinars.
Arresting officials and employees in the Mayor Office
CoI Investigations office affirmed that some officials and employees working in the ex-mayor office were arrested by court warrants under the provisions of the article 315 of the Iraqi Penal Code. Those arresting operations were implemented legally by judicial arresting warrants.
Arresting warrant against the ex-mayor
The Office investigations added that those arrested officials and employees were transferred along with the related documents and the detected amounts of the money and all evidences to the judicial committee at the investigative court on integrity in Nineveh which decided to split 13 criminal cases to be prosecuted under the provisions of the article 340 of the penal code. Amounts detected were deposited with the bank until the investigations finished. The court issued some warrants of arresting against number of employees and against the fugitive (ex-mayor) and decided to prevent them from travelling abroad.
Noteworthy to mention that CoI had announced, on the eleventh of this month, seizing 14 managers and employees working at the chamber of Nineveh governorate for a charge of embezzling and wasting state money, revealing the seizure of more than 15 billion dinars that were in their trust.
