Integrity Commission: Control of exchange transactions in violation of the law and exaggeration at Najaf Airport and Education Directory

The Federal Integrity Commission announced the implementation of (7) seizures of illegal exchange transactions and excessive maintenance work in Najaf Governorate, indicating that the total sums spent on it amounted to about one and a quarter billion dinars.

The Media Center of the Commission stated in a statement that the cadres of the Najaf Investigation Office of the Investigation Department carried out (5) separate seizure operations at the international airport in the province, indicating that the procurement committees at the airport organized sham purchase transactions and disbursed an amount of (566,867) US dollars in violation of the law. Indicating that, through (4) separate operations, the exchange priorities for those transactions that led to a waste of public money were seized.

It added that the staff of the office monitored the purchase of vacuum cleaners by employees at the airport for a very large and exaggerated amount, pointing out that the cost of the illegal purchase amounted to (196,900) US dollars.

It confirmed that the staff that moved to the Directorate of Education in the governorate set the priorities for spending for the maintenance of two schools that were implemented by them against the backdrop of revealing an exaggeration in the maintenance process, noting that the implementation committee of the Directorate has spent an amount of (116,828,000) million dinars.

The Commission had previously announced in the past days that it had carried out seizures of sham purchase transactions at Najaf airport, and that the airport’s purchase committee had spent an amount of (504,976) US dollars, in violation of the law.