4 senior officials involved in money-laundering of CBI, confirms MP

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP Haitham al-Jubouri, member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee threatened to unveil the names of officials who are involved in the money-laundering issue of the Central Bank of Iraq.

Jubouri told Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) that “There are four senior political figures involved in the issue of the CBI,” stressing that “Those figures pressurize the commission which is tasked with investigating this case to stop their investigation.”

“We confirm that if those characters would not stop practicing their pressures then we will reveal their names via media outlets and public opinion,” he added.

“The names of officials that were published earlier via the media outlets about their involvement in the money-laundering case are not correct,” he concluded.

It is worth mentioning that the Iraqi Parliament has formed a parliamentary commission headed by the Speaker’s First Deputy, Qusai al-Sihail to investigate the money-laundering issue of the CBI.