Abadi's alliance seeks to renew corruption charges against Maliki
Nasr Alliance, headed by
Haidar al-Abadi, is leading a movement to open the case against leader of the
State of Law Coalition and former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki related to
the waste of public money during his rule, Lebanese Al-Akhbar said.
The official investigations
fuel political conflicts. Some opponents are trying to exploit them according to
serve their interests, the report said.
The report said that 78
MPs submitted, days ago, a request to the presidency of the parliament to form
a fact-finding committee to discuss the circumstances of the Camp Speicher
Massacre committed by ISIS in June 2014, as well as cases of squandering public
funds during the government of Maliki.
MP Yousef al-Kalabi of
the Nasr Alliance, allied with Saairun Alliance, National Wisdom Alliance, and Iraqi
National List have accused Maliki and his government of spending huge sums of
money outside the controls adopted in the draft federal budget in 2014, to
implement alleged economic projects and services.
Muqtada Al-Sadr
The Iraqi Shia cleric and prominent political
leader Muqtada Al-Sadr has threatened to investigate former Prime Minister
Nouri Al-Maliki for corruption, according to media reports in October last year.
Sadr’s
Spokesman Sheikh Salah Al-Obeidi said the “thieves” would be held
accountable, in addition to Al-Maliki’s men, “who brought back the thieves to
Iraq and covered up their corruption”.
“The
abundance of corruption crimes during the past years does not mean that crimes
committed against the Iraqis would be abandoned,” he announced.
The
spokesman concluded: “There is a lot to reveal in the coming days.”
These
remarks came after a tweet posted by the head of the National Movement for
Development and Reform party, Jamal Al-Karbouli, in which he called for the
people who preach morals to teach themselves before teaching others.
The
veiled comment was directed at Al-Sadr after he launched an appeal calling for
people to ignore the sectarian partition of the government and allowing the
designate prime minister to choose technocrats for his government.
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