Embezzlement of 64 million dollars before the removal of the governor of Nineveh

The Iraqi Integrity Commission announced in a statement today the loss of about 64 million dollars from the budget of the province of Nineveh (northern Iraq), embezzled by employees close to the governor of the prosecution, Nofal Akoub, before being dismissed from his post after the sinking of a ferry in Mosul last month.

The Commission announced on 11 of this month seized 14 officials and staff in the office of the province of Nineveh, on charges of embezzlement and waste of state funds.

The Integrity Commission revealed in its statement today that employees close to the Ikob acquired more than 76 billion Iraqi dinars (64 million dollars) in the form of instruments or deposits in personal accounts in the form of cash.

An official in the body - the request for anonymity - that of the original amount, about 45 billion Iraqi dinars (37 million dollars) of the funds of the development of the regions for the year 2018, especially in the province.

He pointed out that the Integrity Commission was able to recover about eight billion dinars (six million dollars).

At the end of last March, the Iraqi parliament unanimously voted to dismiss the two deputies and his deputies after a sinking ferry in Mosul killed more than 100 people, most of them women and children.

The sinking of the ferry opened the files of corruption that devastated the devastated city following the war on the organization of the Islamic state, which was allocated a budget worth eight hundred million dollars.

However, corruption continues to prevail in the country that ranks 12th on the list of the most corrupt countries in the world, and if the episode of political corruption has brought the issue back to light, none of them has been brought to justice yet.

Iraq has suffered years of corrupt corruption in its institutions. This corruption has caused in the last 15 years a loss of 228 billion dollars went to the pockets of politicians and corrupt entrepreneurs, according to the Iraqi Council of Representatives, and this amount today is twice the budget and more than the country's GDP.