A significant reduction in the central bank auction today
CBI sales recorded, on Wednesday, a significant reduction in the auction for the sale of foreign currency, reaching $ 220 million, after it was yesterday $ 336 million.
According to a statement of the bank, the agency received all of Iraq [where] a copy of “The size of the amount sold today by the bank at the auction of the dollar stood at 220 million and 718 thousand and $ 529, priced at 1166 dinars exchange rate to the dollar, and with the participation of 25 banks and eight companies of the financial convert” .
He pointed out that “the amount of remittances and credits amounted to 202 000 143 thousand and $ 529, while the quantity sold was 18 million in cash and 575 thousand dollars.”
And raised suspicions of corruption and operations of money laundering through the central bank auction where the first Monday announced specialized claims integrity in Baghdad Misdemeanor Court of the existence of 13 cases of banks eligibility relating to charges of money laundering, pointing to the existence of 20 defendants in these cases, some degree of Chairman of the Board. “
He said Judge Radhi Fartusi “There are 20 defendants on these issues, they are largely the head of the Council or the Director of the Commissioner, as well as customers,” noting that “the suits have been agitated by the central bank, after that person BSA irregularities on the work of a number of banks Eligibility. “
And between the head of specialized claims Integrity misdemeanor court “there is suspicion that some of the money had been converted to a fictitious company in an Arab country, has asked the central bank to prove those allegations, as we asked the central bank to determine the value of the damage, and the size of the amounts which in hard currency, and the source, and place The existence currently, it been disposed of. “
The Federal Supreme Court, announced on the sixth of July, the unconstitutionality of several articles in the 2015 budget law, including Article [50], the judge to “compel the Central Bank identifies sales of hard currency [the dollar] in its daily auction ceiling does not exceed 75 million dollars a day. “
