Prime Minister Mohamed Shiaa al-Sudani confirmed on Wednesday that the government has handled suspicious trade and limited corruption and money laundering.
“The Sudanese received the Assistant Secretary of US Treasury Elizabeth Rosenberg and her accompanying delegation to discuss joint cooperation between financial institutions in Iraq and the US Treasury Department, and discuss the government’s measures in implementing financial and banking reforms, to reduce corruption in all its forms,” the Prime Minister’s Information Office said in a statement received by Mawazine News.
Al-Sudani pointed out, according to the statement, “the government’s implementation of its priorities in reforming the banking sector, which is a basic base for the development of the economy, by adopting international standards and addressing the distortions and imbalances that accompanied its work and keeping pace with developments, stressing that these reforms have contributed, and significantly, to reducing money laundering operations, as well as addressing suspicious trade and reducing corruption,” stressing that “the government has made great strides in implementing its reforms in financial institutions, in the public and private sectors.”
For her part, Rosenberg praised “the great steps taken by the government in the field of financial and banking reform, which will help Iraq to advance its economy and strengthen its programs and plans in the field of sustainable development.” Ended 29/H99
