June 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Iraqi Integrity Commission, the country’s anti-corruption group, has announced that it issued arrest warrants and summonses against 52 top officials in the country last May as part of the fight against corruption.
On the ongoing processes, Iraqi courts handed down 168 charges against corruption cases and arrested 98 people who were “caught in the act.”
22 cases of flight and money smuggling out of the country were also presented to the commission, reports the Rudaw agency.
The body has not given the names of the senior officials who were summoned or under arrest warrant.
Rampant corruption is a historic scourge in a country whose authorities estimate that more than $400 billion has disappeared from state coffers since the 2003 fall of dictator Saddam Hussein.
The affected country ranks 157 out of 180 countries in the corruption perception index of the organization Transparency International.
