CoI issued a detailed model financial disclosure form, which simply shows the purpose behind this annual commitment, the ranks of the senior officials included in the financial disclosure, civil and military, properties, sanctions, and administrative and legal penalties against those who evade it.
CoI clarified in the model form distributed by the Prevention Office that the purpose of disclosing the financial status is to strengthen people`s trust in officials through obliging them to disclose their financial status, outside activities, investments, assets, grants, and great benefits that might lead to the conflict of interests.
In addition to the official him/herself, the instructions include his/her spouse, minor, unmarried, and dependent children whether they were married or have reached the age of legal capacity.
The instructions of financial disclosure include any high position official for instance the president of the republic, members of the legislative authority, the prime minister, his deputies, ministers, deputies of ministers and those who are of the same rank. In addition, the high-ranked officials, chief justice, judges, presidents of regions, their prime ministers, their deputies, governors, members of provincial councils, heads of independent entities, their deputies, ambassadors, consuls and attachés. Moreover, the instructions also include commanders, heads of security bodies, DGs, those who are of the same rank, CoI investigators, armed forces officers, internal security forces and security entities from the rank of lieutenant colonel up, and whoever the Commission finds it necessary to disclose his/her financial status.
The instructions obliged the covered persons to submit three financial disclosures, the first should be submitted in (30) days after the official`s appointment, transference, mandate or secondment for the first time to a position covered in the financial disclosure.
The covered person submits every year in January an annual report of his/her financial interests as long as still in the same office, while the third disclosure is submitted during 30 days after leaving office which is a condition to pay his/her dues and offer facilitations.
The Office noted to the relevant persons that the law has authorized CoI to pursue every covered person evades submitting the report of his/her financial interests or complementing the incomplete data, intends to conceal essential information or submits untrue information.
Lights were shed on the steps and how to fill the form where the covered person writes on the first page the full and surnames, and the full address (Neighborhood, St. No., House No., date and place of birth including day/month/year, ministry of employment, office, section and position).
The second page includes the full name of spouse, full mother`s name and profession as well as being divorced or widow/widower. While the pages from third to twelfth contain details of real estate for the covered person and his/her spouse or the children concerned with disclosure; vehicles; trucks; shares; deeds; precious possessions; gold, jewellery, cash money in possession and money deposited in banks inside and outside the country as well as the bank`s name, account number, amount of credit, type of currency, and sent and received remittances. Moreover, the incorporeal money such as authoring; patents; insurance contracts with the worthiness amount of entailment; any other nongovernmental income resources such as rents, sheep and poultry breeding farms, corps, clinics, pharmacies and others; and specifying the total monthly income of each of the aforementioned sources.
The covered person should write on the thirteenth page names of the nongovernmental work masters whom he/she, spouse or one of the children had a position there, or any other activities. On the fourteenth page he/she should mention any profession practiced in the past or any other source resulted from working for a ministry, province or other places, as well as the practice of a private job, law firm or free trade. On the fifteenth page he/she should write the total amount of basic salary, allocations and cuts. The sixteenth page carries any profit from money of no charge placed in legal systems such as endowments, grants or the third party money. Page seventeen contains details of cash or in kind gifts and grants. While page eighteen contains reference to the debts at the liability of the covered person in addition to bank loans.
