The Iraqi Federal Integrity Commission announced today, Monday, that a ruling has been issued sentencing a director general in the Ministry of Industry and Minerals to six years in prison for committing the crime of bribery.
A statement said, "The Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court issued a pronounced judgment against the director general of the General Company for Hydraulic Industries in the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, sentencing him to six years in prison for committing the crime of bribery."
The statement added that "the ruling was issued based on the bribery charges against the accused, after the Baghdad Investigation Directorate affiliated with the Commission's Investigation Department managed to catch him in the act of receiving a bribe of 25 million dinars in his office in exchange for facilitating contracting checks."
It clarified that "the court, after reviewing the evidence collected in the case and the official record prepared by the Baghdad Investigation Directorate, reached a sufficient conviction regarding the accused’s guilt, and thus issued a verdict convicting him and sentencing him in his presence to six years in prison."
Furthermore, "the judgment, which is based on the provisions of Resolution No. 160 of 1983 as amended, and in accordance with Articles 47, 48, and 49 of the amended Penal Code No. 111 of 1969, also included a financial penalty of 10 million dinars and granted the damaged party (the Ministry of Finance) and the complainant the right to claim compensation after the ruling becomes final."
