FCOI conducts investigations and inspections against an official in Basra electricity

INA-  Baghdad

The Federal Commission of Integrity- FCOI announced ,on Monday ,that it is conducting investigations and inspections against an official at the Basra electricity distribution company after accusing him of a bribery crime.

A statement issued by the Commission’s Government Media and Communications Office, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that "a team from the authority's Investigation Directorate in Basra province conducted investigations and inspections, in order to implement the arrest warrant issued against the Technical Assistant to the director of the electricity distribution Directorate/ Basra branch in cooperation with a law force enforcement agencies”.

The statement added that "the judicial arrest warrant issued in accordance with the provisions of resolution (160 of 1983) came against the background of the commission's seizure of two defendants in the Southern Electric Power Transmission Company guilty of bribery; after they received an amount of three million dinars from one of the complainants".

" The defendants received the bribe amount in exchange for lifting an electrical transformer from in front of the property belonging to the complainant" ,stressing that "they admitted that they were intermediaries to receive the amount and hand it over to the main defendant, the Technical Assistant to the director of the electricity distribution Directorate/ Basra branch" the statement continued .

The statement noted that "the search and inspection operations carried out by the team of the commission's Investigation Directorate in Basra since the issuance of the warrant against the fugitive accused are still ongoing and that the team is working hard to arrest him and manage him for the judiciary to issue the appropriate decision against him".