MOI declares imprisonment sentences against blackmailers

Baghdad-INA

The Ministry of Interior announced the issuance of 14-year prison sentences for extortionists on social media, while indicating the deportation of thousands of foreign workers.

MOI spokesman, Major General Khaled Al-Muhanna, stated to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), Minister of Interior  orders to continue the investigations who carry out electronic extortion, as some of them were arrested and referred to the competent courts, noting that "during the last period, prison sentences were issued against blackmailers up to 7 years and some for 14 years.

Al-Muhanna added, most of those who commit social media extortionists are not groups, but rather individual people blackmailing citizens, noting that this phenomenon has spread and posed an increasing threat to the Iraqi social fabric because it causes suicide, girls' murder, divorce, family disputes and domestic violence.

Regarding foreign workers, Al-Muhanna stressed that thousands of foreign workers have been deported during the last period due to violating the residency laws.

It is noteworthy that the Minister of Labor, Adel Al-Rikabi, announced on June 24, the deportation of thousands of foreign workers whose residency was illegal, as they affected the opportunities of Iraqi youth to obtain jobs.