Day: November 29, 2022

Baghdad Today, Tuesday, the Parliamentary Integrity Committee held a joint meeting with the head of the Communications Authority and the managing director of Asiacell, to find out the truth about what was recently circulated in the media regarding suspicions of corruption in granting a (4G) license, as well as debts owed by Asiacell.

The deputy head of the committee, Alia Nassif, stated, in a press statement, that “the Integrity Committee has warned Korek Telecom Company to pay all the debts it owed to the state treasury, and the committee will also follow up and prosecute any company that has not committed to paying the state’s dues in full.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Baghdad The economist, Nabil Al-Marsoumi, affirmed: Corruption in the country is eroding the structure of the state, and confronting it is the basis for building and developing Iraq.

He told the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) that there are private banks on the blacklist, and the matter is not limited to money laundering only, but rather it is carrying out transfers of some of its assets to Iran after the failure of the nuclear talks and the American prosecution of more than 14 Iraqi banks, preventing dealing with them and preventing them from entering the bank auction, which is considered the biggest corruption.

Al-Marsoumi stressed: Confronting corruption is the basis and starting point for building and developing Iraq, because corruption networks control all the main pillars of the Iraqi economy.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Kirkuk The Kirkuk governorate administration warned of damage to hundreds of thousands of tons of yellow corn crop, which the governorate ranks first in cultivation and production.

The Governor of Kirkuk, Rakan al-Jubouri, said: “The province is witnessing a challenge due to the lack of storage space for the yellow corn crop, and the non-receipt of it by the receiving centers of the Ministries of Agriculture and Trade, which exposes the crop to damage.”

Al-Jubouri appealed to the Council of Ministers to find an urgent solution, indicating: “The province’s production is expected to reach more than 750,000 tons, which is the first in Iraq’s provinces.”

The Director of Kirkuk Agriculture, Zuhair Ali Hussein, said: “440 thousand tons of the yellow corn crop is threatened with damage after the marketing operations stopped due to the lack of financial allocations until it is received from the farmers,” noting: “The average of what was received of yellow corn by affiliated marketing centers for the Ministry of Agriculture, does not exceed 60 thousand tons, while Kirkuk produces more than 500 thousand tons annually.

For his part, Mahmoud al-Ezzi, head of the agricultural associations, called on the central government in Baghdad to find quick solutions and allocate the necessary sums of money to receive yellow corn from farmers due to the wave of rains the province is witnessing… stressing: “Thousands of tons have been damaged now.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency