The head of the Federal Integrity Commission, Judge Haider Hanoun, and the head of the Iraqi National Security Service, Abdul Karim Abd Fadel Hussein, stressed the importance of intensifying cooperation between the Supreme Anti-Corruption Commission and its supporting team, and focusing on tracking down the corrupt using technological means.
During their meeting at the Commission’s headquarters, they stressed the participation and support of the supporting team for the work of the Commission’s investigators in the field of investigating information related to corruption crimes, and expanding the scope of investigations carried out by the supporting team in order to catch the accused red-handed.
They also urged participation with law enforcement agencies in implementing arrest warrants issued by judges of investigative courts specialized in examining integrity cases, noting the combined efforts of oversight agencies and all state institutions in their endeavor to purify state institutions of the scourge of c
orruption and corruptors.
The Federal Integrity Commission had previously announced in mid-November 2022 the formation of a supreme body to investigate major and important corruption cases, headed by Judge Haider Hanoun and the membership of the directors of the Investigation and Recovery Departments. While the Prime Minister formed a team to support it, headed by Abdel Karim Abd Fadel Hussein, head of the National Security Service and former Director General of the Ministry of Interior, it is responsible for investigations, collecting evidence, implementing decisions, providing support to investigators, providing them with the information they receive about these crimes and cases, and seizing the perpetrators committed the crime red-handed.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency