Baghdad – IA
Today, Monday, the Authority’s Investigation Directorate in Baghdad was able to arrest officials in the General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage red-handed in receiving sums of money amounting to (45) million dinars. In exchange for breach of their job duties.
The Government Information and Communications Office said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “the Baghdad Investigation Directorate has formed a team to investigate and investigate information it received from one of the complainants, which included the complainant’s request for a financial sum estimated at 47 million dinars, in exchange for breaching their assigned job duties for the benefit of the accused.” “The complainant.”
He added, “The team, which began investigating and verifying the information and verifying its authenticity, and after obtaining the judicial order issued by the judge of the Second Karkh Investigation Court, initiated an elaborate ambush for the complainants, and was able to catch them red-handed in receiving the agreed-upon amount.”
He continued, “The defendants, who are the head and members of the appraisal committee composed of the General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage at the Ministry of Culture and who are charged with conducting excavation work on an archaeological site, received the bribe amount in exchange for reducing the excavation period from four months to two months and a few days, and reducing the number of experts and workers.” He pointed out that “the person concerned with paying the excavation fees is the complainant, followed by the owner of the plot of land.”
He stated that “a formal seizure report was prepared for the operation, which was implemented in accordance with the amended provisions of Resolution (160 of 1983), in order to present it, along with the accused and the seized exhibits, to the competent investigating judge to determine their fate.”
