Thursday, June 28, 2012

Member of Finance Committee: the continuing need to combat the smuggling of currency

 Thursday, 28.06.2012

Baghdad (news) .. According to a member of the Finance Committee MP / coalition in Iraq / Ibrahim al-Mutlaq, the importance of the enactment of the Anti-Money Laundering Iraq to save the local currency of the degradation, indicating that the phenomena of money laundering and the smuggling of foreign currency are still ongoing in the country must eliminate them.
Mutlaq said (of the Agency news): The law of the Iraqi anti-money laundering is one of the important laws that keep the local currency of the degradation, indicating has its first reading in the House of Representatives and the second reading and will be voted on in future sessions.

He added that the money laundering and currency smuggling is still ongoing in the country for the lack of real control of the banking offices, drafts and hold in different ways by both internal and external points of its goal to destabilize the Iraqi economy and the deterioration of the local currency.

He explained: that the phenomenon of smuggling foreign currency are found in all the countries of the world, but rates varied, but in Iraq began to spread and take a number of ways either by discharge of the goods by the traders, or through the offices of money orders, calling for the need to put an end to these illegal operations, which are exploited by some countries neighbors who suffer from an international economic blockade to save its economy at the expense of the Iraqi economy. / Finished / 8. for. m /