Parliamentary Finance: Iraq spent 50 trillion dinars on the ration card went mostly to the pockets of intermediaries

Author: BS, MJ
Editor: BK, BS
21/08/2015 15:59



Long-Presse / Baghdad

The parliamentary finance committee, confirmed, on Friday to spend more than 50 trillion dinars on the ration card items since during the period from 2003 to 2015, while showed that most of that money went to the pockets of intermediaries which impacted negatively on the quality of supplied materials to the citizens, revealed a direct body Integrity open the files of corruption in the Ministry of Commerce in cooperation with them.

The member of the Committee, Magda Tamimi, in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "the amounts spent on the ration card of 50 trillion dinars since 2003 and up to 2015", noting that "most of that money went into the pockets of middlemen and not to buy food." .

Tamimi said, "The ministry was very poor qualities imports within the ration card items," indicating that "the mediators claim that imported materials specifications very good despite being a poor and caused many diseases of the Iraqi people."

She explained a member of the parliamentary finance committee, that "it was up to the citizen of a rice Moldy oil expired foodstuffs," asserting that "oil deal expired will be within the private files of corruption in the ministry, which began Integrity opened Authority in cooperation with the parliamentary finance committee."

The Iraqi Ministry of Commerce announced in (the 16th of August now 2015), for the reduction allocated for the ration card funds in the general budget of the current 2015 to a third of the amount of previous years, while attributed to the austerity policy adopted by the Government, pledged to provide full food vocabulary of origins global sober, and to prevent waste and extravagance operations.

The Ministry of Commerce announced, in, (the ninth of August now), for "quick and important" to improve the ration card and increase some vocabulary, depending on the solid global sources, indicating that it will apply "urgent mechanisms" for the delivery of food vocabulary to Dar citizen housing and reduce red tape in procedures registration of births and fission within the same family.

It is noteworthy that the majority of Iraqis depend on what provide him with their ration card in their daily lives since the start of the international embargo on Iraq in 1991 after the invasion of Kuwait, with an estimated value of these materials per capita in the domestic market by about ten dollars from excluding children's milk, while is obtained them through the ration card in the amount of 500 dinars, or $ 0.40.

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