Legal expert: Iraq can recover the smuggled money in accordance with international law
Baghdad / news – Legal expert, Ali Al-Tamimi, stressed that Iraq can recover the smuggled money in accordance with international law.
Al-Tamimi told Al-Ikhbaria that there is an agreement to combat administrative and financial corruption for the year 2005, and Iraq joined it in 2007, and it allows Iraq to request assistance in recovering the smuggled money, which was estimated at 500 billion dollars.
He added that “Article 50 of the Charter of the United Nations allows Iraq to request international assistance, as Security Council Resolution 2170 of 2014, which placed ISIS under Chapter VII, allows that.”
He added that “Iraq can request the Security Council to refer the file to the International Criminal Court, where it considers corruption crimes and considered genocide and crimes against humanity.”