Baghdad /Nina/ The staff of the Investigation Department of the Integrity Commission carried out operations to detect violations and waste of public money in the directorates of the municipality, real estate registration, education, the State Real Estate Department, the Governorate Office, and the Investment Authority in Karbala.
The department reported that the Karbala Investigation Office team, which moved to the Real Estate Registration Directorate in Al-Hurr District, monitored violations in the transaction of transferring ownership of a property owned by the Karbala Municipality Directorate, noting that an employee (a sponsored defendant) in the Real Estate Registry registered the property with an area of ( 8 dunams and 12 awlak) in the names of a number of people after tampering with the restrictions, contrary to the controls and instructions. In the State Real Estate Department, it was noted that violations had been committed by the committee charged with calculating the average rent for a number of properties at less than their real value in the amount of (107,500,000) dinars, representing the value of wastage of public money. As a result of violations committed by the committee.
She added that violations were uncovered in the governorate’s municipalities directorate, and that the accused, the former director of the municipality of Al-Hurr, handed over the old municipality building, whose value is estimated at (3,000,000,000) dinars, to one of the plaintiffs. Despite the issuance of judicial decisions in favor of the municipality to dismiss the plaintiff’s claim regarding the handing over of the building site; Because it cannot be removed; Because it is designated for public benefit purposes, she added: “The Imports Division in the Directorate did not take the necessary legal measures to collect the debts owed by the investor of the project to establish a modern model slaughterhouse for meat production and marketing, and has not collected rent allowances from the investor since the year 2020.”
She added that the Financial Affairs Department in the local administration in the governorate committed administrative and financial violations, represented by not settling financial advances amounting to a total of (578,440,000) dinars owed by some committees and agencies since 2015, noting that among them were the Popular Mobilization Committee and the advance granted to delegates to Egypt. And the Karbala Club, and the Committee for Maintenance of the Wheels of Representatives and the Governor’s Assistants, pointing out that violations had occurred in the “Ceramic Factory” project granted for investment to a general contracting and trading company, explaining that the Karbala Investment Authority granted an investment license; To establish a factory on land belonging to the Ministry of Finance, despite the State Real Estate Department’s opposition to completing the formal procedures for signing the lease contract for the land allocated for the project, in addition to the delay in completing the project.
She continued that the team, which moved to the Karbala Education Directorate/Private Education Division and the Civil Defense Directorate, observed violations in the construction of a number of private schools, as it found that the school facades and walls were covered with highly flammable materials (alicobond and sandwich panel), and that there was a major defect in the electrical installations. Large cracks in the secondary ceilings, in addition to falling pieces of granite found in the stairs and corridors, and failure to take safety and security measures. Which puts the lives of students in danger./End 9
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