Iraq participate in the 5th session summit of the states parties to the UNCAC to be held in Panama in Monday, the delegation is headed by His Excellency Judges Alaa Jwad Hameed the Commissioner of CoI, representatives from the council of ministers secretary have participated also in this session.
The delegates will discuss the steps that states parties performed in order to respond the requirement of UNCAC after 10 years from its establishment and its legal framework to apply legislation with its provisions, also to check what success were achieved within a decade to eliminate corruption crimes and obstacles that impede serious anti corruption practices and gaps which may be extort by corruptors.
Experts will conduct evaluation within the meetings that precede general conference to check the improvement within the states parties regarding its recovery of stolen assets and the scale of bilateral cooperation in this field and what circumstances that impede achieving these requirements.
The conference will discuss through reports made especially for this regard and reports related with the steps of reviewing countries.
40 from 167 of the states parties to the UNCAC have voluntary choose being reviewed by two other states parties whereas Iraq was one best 12 states in the level of responding the requirements of UNCAC provisions according to reviewing states reports data (Malaysia and Jordan).
Judge Alaa jwad hameed present in front of members of 5th session of the states parties of UNCAC the details of Iraq`s experiment in this field and what steps that was taken to spread culture of integrity and fighting corruption crimes.
The judge speak also about the steps achieved by CoI in the field of performing its missions according to law no. 30 of 2011 and the vision that lunched by CoI to assume this responsibility which aim to extend the prevention scope to prevent convicting corruption crimes and to activate the punishment tools upon those who insist on corruption.
The commissioner focused, in the summit of Panama, on the steps that the office of extradition has get to fulfill the files of recovering assets smuggled by corruptors to another countries highlighting on the obstacles that some of the states have put in order to impede the procedures of asset recovery due to their wish of benefiting and keep investing these smuggled money in spite of their ratification on the international accord of fighting corruption and even that their practices will be against the international law taking into consideration that this policy will strength corruption crimes and extending its scale regionally and internationally.
