Baghdad Head of the Integrity Commission, Haider Hanoun, affirmed that restoring confidence in state institutions lies in holding the senior corrupt accountable, putting them behind bars, and returning corruption proceeds from public funds to the state treasury, stressing that the work platform in managing the Commission is based on the principle of reward and punishment.
Hanoun said in a speech during his meeting with the staff of the Directorates and offices of the Commission’s investigation in Baghdad and the provinces on the sidelines of the activities of the National Integrity Week: The investigations of the Commission, if they lead to the arrival of the corrupt behind bars and their removal from the job, they will contribute to creating a decent life for the citizen and economic stability.
He appreciated the blood that was shed for the sake of the homeland, whether in the battlefield against terrorist organizations or those that were shed in confronting corruption and fighting the corrupt, describing it as a project for the survival of the state and the basis on which its bases are based.
Hanoun urged the investigative staff to exert their utmost efforts in the cases they work on, strive diligently and sincerely to investigate cases of administrative and financial corruption, and to provide evidence through which the investigating judges can issue the appropriate decisions against the corrupt and the money trespassers.
He pointed out: Work in the field of combating corruption contributes to creating a happy life for the citizen, providing his strength and creating job opportunities, and contributes to eliminating drugs, unemployment and poverty.
He pointed out that “many negative phenomena and crimes result from corruption, which impedes reconstruction, investment and the provision of job opportunities, which in turn leads to the delinquency of some members of society.
Hanoun praised: the elements with competence and integrity that were able to carry out solid investigations that led to putting the corrupt behind bars. He warned against presenting personal and factional interests in their work, which requires objectivity, professionalism, high sincerity, and punishing bad elements and banishing them outside the commission.
He stressed: the necessity of restoring citizens’ confidence in state institutions and providing the appropriate environment to receive their complaints and communications, and to ensure that they are not subjected to humiliation, bargaining and extortion, as the commission’s teams diagnosed in their visits to some prisons and hospitals.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency