A very big corruption case in Rafidain bank – Ministry of Defense branch was uncovered by CoI teams, whereas the manager of the bank has given  illegal loans exceeded than (150) billions ID.

Reports of investigation office in CoI stated that the accused has circulated illegal loaning petitions throughout breaching the conditions deal with presenting grants (100 Salaries) to Presidential Battalions employees.

Investigations revealed that the accused, in coordination with one of the empowered officials, was circulating loans petitions for individuals list sent by the empowered official. Those petitions were carried out on the holidays, whereas the manager of the bank was exploiting these days to send the bank official to Arbil to take fingerprints for unknown persons and then she ,the manager , spends the loans fund before completing the correct procedures for those petitions.

 Investigators noticed that sending the bank officials to Arbil was carried out by the directions of the manager herself and not officially, whereas the empowered official was handling all the expenses of those officials.

Witnesses  inside the bank confessed that the accused was staying out of official working hours so as to complete those forged petitions and that what the accused admitted during the investigation.

In one of the forgery approved events, 2000$ was paid by a staff officer to the accused to pay money for 30 loans.

The investigations revealed the involvement of some officials in this scandal, also the involvement of one of those officials`s bodyguard in receiving one million I.D. for each loan. Some other statements mentioned that the accused had the power to close the investigations in several corruption cases against her at Al Rafidain bank public directorate.

The investigations revealed that the accused gave loans to some employees twice and she gave some loans without a sponsor as well. CoI investigators informed the competent court that they formed a committee to investigate the billions of I.D. as loans according to falsified petitions by the mentioned bank manager.