SJC: The state treasury supplied nearly 44 billion dinars last year

Baghdad - INA

The Supreme Judicial Council announced that the state treasury provided with nearly 44 billion dinars last year .

The Supreme Judicial Council published an annual statistic received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "judicial institutions have placed about 44 billion Iraqi dinars in the state treasury, which is the outcome of their revenues for the past year from lawsuit fees, fines and trusts."

They added, "The Supreme Judicial Council collects its revenues from the collection of fees, trusts and stamp fees, which are deducted through receipts for fees in courts and departments affiliated with the Supreme Judicial Council.

For his part, Director of the Council's Budget Department, Issam Abbas Abdel-Majid, said: “The judiciary’s revenues for the year 2020 amounted to more than 43 billion and 868 million dinars,” indicating that “these sums were collected from the litigation fees and fines, in addition to the fund's secretariats.”

He continued, "What is being levied is a sovereign fee imposed by the rule of law, and there has been no change in it by the increase in consideration of the Iraqi citizen."

He promised that "the judiciary is one of the state institutions that finance the public treasury," and added that "we do not spend anything from our revenues, but rather goes to the state treasury."