The phenomenon of administrative and financial corruption is a community deadly scourge, it is part of human nature, and the good and evil roots are present in the human being noting that the human goodness may overcome in some people while the evil desires may overcome in some others . It must be said that the phenomenon of corruption is not the result of today , but it exists since the existence of man but is growing and expanding , particularly in light of the wars and the deterioration of economic and living conditions and conflicts that happen in communities.
Iraq , like other countries in the world that has been plagued by wars where the corruption as spread by some of its officials of weak people, those who put their interests and the interests of their communities at the expense of the country, including former Baghdad governor , Dr. Salah Abdul – Razzaq al- Hamid, who committed several financial crimes of corruption , during his career, including:
– – Gimmick of Salah Abdul – Razzaq, a member party of coalition rule of law and a partner at Imam Sadeq University by 10%, which was the media director of the Shiite endowment and works at the time of his boss Hussein Baraka al – Shami on the coalition of law state noting that the ownership of Imam Sadiq University eligibility had been transferred from the Shiite endowment to al – Shami, in a big fraud and trickery operation with the facilitation , the signing and approval of former Prime Minister Nuri al – Maliki who supported corruption among his ministers and his associates in the Daawa party and stood against any attempt to raise this issue, which was one of the most prominent faces of the financial and administrative corruption, and it was a serious indication of the spread of corruption in Iraq.
– Donation Salah Abdul Razzaq to build scholarships laboratories at the University of” civil Sadiq Imam” of the Dawa Party , while the Iraqi law prohibits the donation of public money to the private companies or businesses projects , and the University of Imam al- Sadiq is purelya business project that its profits in excess of four billion Iraqi dinars go to its owner Baraka Hussein al – Shami, Cultural advisor to former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. This donation process was a tricky and a fraud on the public money and financial and administrative corruption and punishable by law.
the Integrity Commission disclosed about a large number of documents of Imam Sadiq University , and how the Dawa party seized it by turning it by order of the prime minister from the state university belonging to the Shiite Endowment into civil University owned by Hussein al – Shami adviser to Maliki, also documents the Commission published by a court order invalidated the process of sales , in which endowment properties that belong to the religious body were exposed to the fraud because the selling price was not commensurate with the real price of the university and the decision is in the Court of Cassation now , and most importantly, that the Diwan did not offer the university for sale and Shami is the one who sold it to himself and decided the selling price.
And the legal authority of the commission affirmed that the usurper of the University of Imam al- Sadiq is the adviser of al – Maliki , former Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Dawa party , who puts pressure on the Cassation court in order not to decide on the subject .and a member of Parliament integrity commission , the independent MP Sabah Al-Sadi mentioned that the files of the university of Al-Sadiq Imam is the most prominent faces of the financial and administrative corruption of the ruling party and it was a big scandal referring to that the prime ministry had committed legislative and legal irregularities in terms of turning all real estates , funds and cars of endowment to the civil university of investment nature , and selling thousands of meters of the real estates of the state with a low price and by installments of this price on the long term with out the knowledge of any one and with out any auction noting that the construction and furnishing and rehabilitating the university were from the Shiite endowment and from the funds and budget of the endowment .
And in official documents issued by the integrity commission no.8-1403 , 1-2016 investigations office directed to Baghdad governorate – legal affairs department – legal representative date 25- August -2016 notifying them with the decision of the court of competent investigation for the integrity issues in Baghdad governorate on the date 22-8-2016 regarding the matter of the former governor of his donation with amount of 2 million dollar to rehabilitate the university of Al-Sadiq Imam , and it is a civil university noting that the Iraqi law does not allow spending any sums of money or performing project by government entity in the favor of the civil university .
And another document issued by the Investigations Division of the legal affairs in Baghdad province / Republic of Iraq , confirmed that the value of projects that have been implemented at the University of Imam of Sadiq amounting to one billion, six hundred and seventy – six million, five hundred and twenty – five thousand Iraqi dinars, Commission did not find a legal justification for the disbursement of the amount by the former governor Salah Salem Abdul Razzaq on projects concerning the University of Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) due to being a civil University and it is not permitted to spend any amount or implementation of a project by a governmental entity in favor of the civil University.
it is worth noting that the Imam Sadiq University , which was called by the name Al-Bkir University, has an area of 6 acres and a half dunam and the Cabinet granted it a license of the establishment in 2008 .
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