Dubai police issue a statement on the alleged seizure of smuggled Iraqi funds belonging to Nuri al-Maliki
Baghdad Today: Dubai Police issued a statement on Wednesday, September 11, 2019, on a video that its publisher claimed was to seize contraband funds linked to the leader of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki.
The Lebanese journalist Maria Maalouf published a video that said, “The security authorities at Dubai airport seized a shipment of funds full of dollars stolen from the treasury of Iraq, estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars aboard a private Iraqi plane belonging to Nuri al-Maliki, which was intended to be smuggled to a European country.”
“This money is equivalent to the budget of 10 Arab countries for five years.” Colonel Faisal Issa Al Qasim, Director of Security Information Department at Dubai Police, explained that “an African gang tried to defraud the person in the video, by identifying them through social media and then communicated with them and seduced them by their ability to double his money, luring him into an apartment containing dollars boxes.
They then filmed him in an attempt to blackmail him and give him money, then he rushed to inform the General Directorate of Criminal Investigations, which in turn took the necessary measures to arrest them. ” Al-Qasim said that “the person would have fallen victim to the gang without his awareness and the speed of notification to the General Directorate of Investigations and Criminal Investigations, which in turn hastened to uncover the truth.”
Al Qasem called on members of the public to be cautious and cautious about communicating with strangers and fake ads in social media and disbelieving them, and to report them through ecrime.ae’s electronic communication platform or smart service “Police Eye” through the Dubai Police application or call 999 or 901.
In the same context, commented Hisham al-Rikabi, director of the Office of the leader of the coalition of law Nuri al-Maliki on the video in a tweet on his site followed by (Baghdad today), saying: “Your lies will not fool anyone after today, I think this section is old and according to information that the money is Libyan smuggled Going back to the Gaddafi era. ”