Iraqi News Thursday Afternoon 9-1-22
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Government Advisor: The 2022 Budget Can Be Approved Immediately In This Case
Political | 07:44 – 01/09/2022 Baghdad – Mawazine News, the financial advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, confirmed, on Thursday, that the merits of the general budget law for the year 2023 are complete, while indicating the possibility of approving the 2022 budget immediately, if the legislative environment allows it.
Saleh told the official news agency, “The provisions of Chapter Three of the amended Federal Financial Management Law No. 6 of 2019 are concerned with preparing and approving the legislative rules for the federal general budget law for the next year, which begins its work at the beginning of July of each year by initiating preparations for estimating expenditures and revenues and managing The deficit or surplus of the draft federal budget law for the coming year.
He added, “Accordingly, the ceiling of its expenditures, both operational and current expenditures and investment spending, is determined through what the Higher Committee for Budget Strategy, headed by the Minister of Finance and a large number of undersecretaries of ministries, general managers and experts from various state facilities, is responsible for drawing up the general budget policy.
The annual budget and the preparation of the draft law, the annual budget, which is accompanied by the fiscal policy document, the macroeconomic reality and future document, the required growth indicators, and the approved economic development policy.
Saleh pointed out that “according to the timeline, the draft law and the strategy attached to it for the next three years must be discussed in the Ministerial Council for Economy in the first of September, and the file is referred to the Council of Ministers for approval of the draft general budget law and its appendices, and then presented in an integrated manner to the legislators in the House of Representatives in The month of October of each year in order to vote on it to legislate it.
He continued, “There is a draft or an integrated project for the budget for the year 2022 that can be legislated immediately if the legislative environment allows it,” noting that “the merits of the general budget law for the year 2023 are to a large extent complete with some simple legal adjustments in the matter of managing the surplus through the fund.”
The sovereign stipulated in Article 19 of the effective Financial Management Law, as well as the agreement on the price of a barrel of oil for the purposes of calculating the return from it in the year 2023, in light of the development of energy markets and the demand for oil in the world.
Saleh pointed out that “oil revenues constitute more than 90% of the total public revenues in the budget, as well as what is expected of non-oil revenues in the next fiscal year.” Ended 29/R77
More Than 9 Billion Dollars In Iraq’s Oil Revenues For The Past Month
Economie| 05:47 – 01/09/2022 Baghdad – Mawazine News The Ministry of Oil announced, on Thursday, the total exports and revenues achieved for the month of August, according to preliminary statistics issued by the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company “SOMO”.
A statement by the ministry, received by Mawazine News, stated that the total amount of crude oil exports amounted to (101) million (859) thousand (528) barrels, with revenues amounting to (9.784) billion dollars.
The statistics indicated that the total quantities exported of crude oil for the month of August from oil fields in central and southern Iraq amounted to (100) million (750) thousand barrels. ) thousand and (528) barrels, and the average daily quantities amounted to (3) million and (286) thousand barrels per day, while the average price per barrel was (96.05) dollars. https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=204208
Integrity: Judgment Against A Government Bank Official Who Embezzled 50 Billion Dinars
Today, Thursday, the Federal Integrity Commission announced the issuance of a prison sentence and a fine against the assistant manager of a government bank branch in Khalidiya, against the background of the embezzlement case of (50) billion dinars from the bank.
In a statement, the Commission’s Investigation Department stated, “The Rusafa Criminal Court, which is specialized in integrity issues, issued a ruling ordering a term of imprisonment of (15) years, with a fine of (10,000,000) dollars against the assistant director of Al-Rafidain Bank – Khalidiya Branch.”
She added that “the court, after reviewing the papers, the investigation records, the seized exhibits, the evidence and the evidence obtained in this case, reached full conviction of the accused’s negligence, and decided to convict her by issuing a judgment in attendance, imprisoning her for (15) years, with a fine of (10,000,000) dollars; To the requirements of Article (36) of the Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Law No. (39) of 2015.”
The department clarified, “The steps taken after the issuance of a life sentence to the director of Al-Rafidain Bank – Khalidiya branch, for his participation with his assistant and other employees in embezzling an amount of (50,000,000,000) dinars from the bank resulting from the disbursement of retirees’ money in Anbar, as the investigation, investigation and audit staff in the Investigation Department began procedures with procedures.” firm and make strenuous efforts to reach the embezzled money.
And she added, “In cooperation with law enforcement agencies and in accordance with judicial memoranda, a team from the department carried out raids and searches on the homes of the convicts, both the Rafidain Bank branch manager and his assistant, in coordination between the Baghdad Investigation Directorate and the land holding force in Anbar Governorate,” noting that “the team was able to find More than half a billion Iraqi dinars were seized from the house of one of the accused, in addition to the seizure of 9 real estate bonds distributed in different areas in Baghdad.
The department confirmed that “its continuous operations led to the discovery of a huge multi-storey building in the center of Mansour city and a plot of land in the same location (belonging to the accused), as well as a 300-square-meter house in the Jamea neighborhood, and (2) real estate apartments outside Iraq and bank accounts. multiple”.
She pointed out that “the team organized fundamentalist records, as all real estate bonds and citations related to them were linked in the investigative papers and presented to the judiciary, and their valueswere estimated and a special account was opened in the Rafidain Bank to deposit the resulting rents.”
Al-Maliki Issues A Seven-Point Statement – Urgent
Posted On2022-09-01 By Sotaliraq The leader of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki, presented, on Tuesday, 7 data for the events in Iraq during the past 24 hours.
Al-Maliki said in a statement that “there is no national principle or statement that politicians from all national forces have not declared, but I would like to recall the following facts:
First: Power cannot impose a political reality that forces others to follow its compass.
Second: The one who ignites the war is not the one who stops it or controls its tracks, just as he is not the one who reaps its fruits. Rather, there are internal and external influences that start to stir or stop the bloody scene.
Third: Everyone has pledged to preserve the political system and work under the umbrella of the constitution and the law, and we must condemn any wrong practice by any of us without complacency or equivocation.
Fourth: The legitimate state institutions have complete immunity and respect in accordance with the law, and that attacking them is a major crime punishable by laws, and is considered an explosion and sabotage of political life and a violation of pluralistic democracy.
Fifth: Nineteen years of violent policies and the strife between this component or that and that political party and that party have sufficed us. The Iraqi people have reaped nothing but pain, suffering, strife, and lost opportunities for construction and progress.
And whoever puts Iraq in his heart and mind, he must be in harmony with this conviction and claim and adhere to the constitutional contexts in his political steps, and he appeals to the logic of reason and the national interest and legitimacy, and is subject to the rule of the constitution, which is translated by the judicial, legislative and executive authorities.
Sixth: The people are the source of authority, so where is it in the culture and premises of the political forces, or is it a tempting sign and a platform to achieve personal and objective goals, while the people are required to judge and criticize wrong and illegal practices in the light of their constitutional awareness.
Seventh: What we always say and adhere to remains as a structural part of our political practices, which is to stay away from violence and illegal force, break the system and sabotage it, and all political forces, whether represented by the government or the opposition, must resort to the decisions of the people’s voice that the legitimate parliament reduces through its decisions and laws And his positions, and adherence to the provisions of the judiciary and the Federal Court as the constitutional judge in disputes, and dealing with the executive authority as it is responsible for implementing laws and taking care of the people’s interest in what they aspire to, with respect for its institutions and decisions, and this is the common word that we have to meet with all our different affiliations and identities.
Al-Maliki thanked the popular crowd for its commitment and discipline and for not dealing emotionally with crises, at a time when the sacrifices of thousands of its sons were before us in response to the barbaric ISIS attacks on Iraq .
The leader of the State of Law coalition also thanked “the armed forces, who showed great discipline and great patience as they faced uncontrolled bullets and missiles that do not distinguish between a man, a woman and a child. LINK
Iraq: Calm Returns To Basra And The Federal Court Holds A Session To Consider The Dissolution Of Parliament
Posted On2022-09-01 By Sotaliraq Life has returned to normal in Iraq after bloody armed confrontations in the Green Zone in central Baghdad
The Iraqi city of Basra witnessed clashes on Wednesday night between Saraya al-Salam, the armed wing of the Sadrist movement, and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, one of the pro-Iranian militias of the Popular Mobilization Forces, according to press reports.
An Iraqi security source told AFP that three people were killed in clashes between Shiite factions in Basra.
The Security Media Cell of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers said in a statement posted on the communication sites, “What the Basra governorate witnessed was a murder in the governorate center and another wounded, as the security forces arrested a number of suspects.” “The security situation is under control,” he added.
It is expected that the Iraqi Federal Court, the highest judicial authority in Iraq, will hold a session today to decide on cases brought by political blocs, including the Sadrist movement, regarding the dissolution of Parliament, which was postponed yesterday.
Life has returned to normal in Iraq after bloody armed confrontations in the Green Zone in central Baghdad, but without any signs of a solution to the political crisis that has been going on for more than a year.
The court had previously postponed its session on the matter after tension escalated sharply on Monday, with al-Sadr’s supporters storming the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, which led to the outbreak of violence that killed 30 people.
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden called on Iraqi political leaders to initiate a “national dialogue” with the aim of addressing the existing political crisis, during a phone call with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, according to the White House.
The White House said in a statement that Biden and Al-Kazemi “welcomed the return of security to the street and called on all Iraqi leaders to start a national dialogue aimed at building a common solution, within the framework of the constitution and Iraqi laws.”
The US president expressed his support for a “sovere and independent Iraq”, amid the great Iranian influence in the country invaded by the United States in 2003.
Al-Kazemi had called in mid-August the leaders of the political forces to a “national dialogue”, despite the fact that Al-Sadr did not agree to participate.
The confrontations represented the top of the differences over the political crisis that Iraq has been going through since the legislative elections in October 2021. Because of the sharp divisions between the political parties, a new prime minister was not appointed and a government was not formed after the elections.
The parliament also failed to elect a new president for a country that is among the richest countries in the world in its oil resources, but it is mired in economic and social crises.
Muqtada al-Sadr and his most prominent opponents in the coordination framework, including former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, agree on one point to resolve the crisis, which is the need for new early elections. But while Muqtada al-Sadr insists on dissolving parliament first, his opponents want to form a government before elections are held.
The coordination framework adhered to its positions, and reiterated, in a statement issued on Tuesday, its demand to “accelerate the formation of a national service government that will undertake reform tasks and fight corruption.”
As for the position of al-Sadr, who is known for his volatile and unpredictable statements and moves, it is not clear today.
On Tuesday, he called on his supporters to “withdraw” from the street completely, even from the “sit-in in front of Parliament” they started weeks ago. Their withdrawal halted the clashes, but it did not bring any initiative to negotiate. On the contrary, he answered journalists’ questions about what would happen by not “talking about politics.”
But the leader, Saleh Muhammad al-Iraq, who is known to be close to al-Sadr, tweeted yesterday through his account, “The Leader’s Minister,” attacking the coordination framework that also includes representatives of Shiite factions affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces and loyal to Iran. He called on Iran to “restrain its camel in Iraq, or else regret it”, as he put it.
The coordinating framework represents the political front of the Popular Mobilization Forces, whose absolute loyalty to Iran is subject to sharp criticism from a large segment of Iraqis. LINK
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