Judge Haider Hanoun, head of the Integrity Commission, declared today, Thursday, that one of the main defendants in the tax deposit theft case would be extraduted.
Following {Euphrates News}, Hanoun declared in a press conference that “the accused Nour Zuhair is bailable and will be tried. Tax deposit theft is reported to the court; the Integrity Commission is only in charge of law execution. The government assigns this case top attention and it will not die.
“The accused Qasim Muhammad was extradited from the Kurdistan Region following his flight from Turkey,” he said. His title is Managing Director of the Humpbacked Whale Company. Not final numbers; the larceny noted against the defendants is 988 billion Iraqi dinars.
He said, “Another accused was Mohammed Falah Al-Janabi, the managing director of Al-Qant Company. He is charged with using 79 bogus checks to pilfers more than a trillion dinars. The third accused of tax deposit theft is under custody in the Emirates; we will shortly retrieve him.
Accused of stealing more over two trillion, Abdul Mahdi Tawfiq was taken under custody. Additionally serving as the managing director of the Humpbacked Whale Company is Alaa Khalaf Maran, a fugitive in Lebanon or Turkey presently, is the fourth accused of pilfering tax monies. He said, “two dual nationals were arrested by the Kuwaiti authorities and the amounts owed to them amounted to 124 million dollars and will be returned to Iraq.” He was linked to Al-Kadhimi’s office and had 890 billion dinars in pocket.
“The final amount of the theft of tax deposits exceeds what was announced, and the recovery of more than two million dollars and 155 million that had been buried underground in Babylon, in addition to 9 properties of a former general manager in the General Directorate of Railways, and we are in the process of investigating him regarding the inflation of funds,” he said at the end of his address.
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