NIS seizes more than a million dollars intended for smuggling

Baghdad-INA 

The National Intelligence Service managed to seize more than one million dollars intended for smuggling.

A senior security source told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that "based on accurate intelligence information, the National Intelligence Service, in cooperation with the Organized Crime Directorate in the Ministry of Interior, was able to seize an amount of more than one million dollars that organized crime groups tried to smuggle."

Yesterday, Thursday, the Prime Minister, Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani, issued directives to tackle currency smuggling and arrest smugglers and speculators at the dollar exchange rate.

The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief, Major General Yahya Rasoul, stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani, chaired a meeting, in the presence of a number of security leaders."

He added, "Al-Sudani issued strict directives to deal with currency smuggling, arrest smugglers and speculators at the dollar exchange rate, confiscate smuggled funds, and subject external controls to monitoring and scrutiny."

Al-Sudani stressed, according to the statement, the “flowability of banking work in banks and exchanges, in a way that guarantees freedom of currency trading in accordance with the legal banking contexts that are subject to commodity and financial exchange mechanisms, facilitating foreign currency for citizens wishing to travel and treatment, and preventing intruders and beneficiaries from these procedures.”