Baghdad – IA
Today, Tuesday, the Parliamentary Finance Committee decided to form a committee to investigate fraud in deducting citizens’ dues without their knowledge.
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The Media Department of the House of Representatives said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “the Finance Committee, headed by Atwan Al-Atwani, hosted the Director General of the Rafidain Bank, Ali Karim, and the Managing Director of the International Smart Card Company, to discuss electronic transactions.”
At the beginning of the hosting, Al-Atwani stressed that “the government program emphasized electronic dealings and the shift from the paper-based system to the global electronic system,” stressing “the necessity of reducing routine for the citizen as it affects his power, while encouraging the adoption of the electronic card.”
The committee discussed the issue of dealing with unlicensed associations, installment sales operations, and receiving advances, and emphasizing preventing any tampering in the sales process, verifying the information of the applicant for the advance, and protecting the citizen’s money.
For his part, the Director General of Rafidain Bank reviewed “the mechanism for issuing the smart card and the problems facing the bank, as well as how to provide services to the bank’s national customers, and follow up on registering complaints.”
The committee decided to form a subcommittee to investigate incidents of fraud, through which financial dues are deducted from customers without their knowledge, and to submit a report thereon, and emphasized ending any fraud as it directly affects the lives of citizens.