Parliamentary Finance: The Government keenness to provide financial facilities and support for traders

 
Baghdad-INA
The Parliamentary Finance Committee stressed on Sunday, the government’s keenness to provide the necessary financial facilities and support for traders.
 
The head of the committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “The government, despite its keenness to provide full financial facilities and the necessary support to all traders, the greedy among them and the speculators are still living off crises by maximizing their profits and inflating their coffers, at the expense of their livelihood the poor.”
 
 
The statement added, "We note that these speculators and profiteers did not give any consideration or respect to the government's commitment to provide hard currency for their commercial transactions through the official Central Bank platform, as they continue their suspicious trade by manipulating the selling prices of goods and commodities to an exaggerated extent under the pretext of the high price of the dollar, even though they import them at the same price the official".
 
He called on the Government and its regulatory agencies to "tighten market control, to ensure price stability, and to impose the most severe penalties on vulnerable traders, to serve as an example to others."