We Will Pursue Money Laundering Crimes With Modern Technologies And Digitalization
Iraq Tuesday, November 7, 2023 Baghdad/National News Center Today, Tuesday, the Federal Integrity Commission confirmed its intention to prosecute crimes of illicit gain and money laundering using modern technologies and digitalization.
Integrity stated in a statement received by the National News Centre, that “The Chairman of the Authority, Judge Haider Hanoun, stressed in his speech at the launch ceremony of the (Laser Fiche) system, which was attended by the representative and advisor to the Prime Minister (Moayad Al-Saadi), the importance of benefiting from technological development and the information revolution.” ;
With the aim of digital transformation and electronic governance for its role in combating corruption, saving effort, speeding up work, reducing costs, and achieving administrative integrity and transparency in all state institutions.”
Judge Hanoun stressed “the importance of all state institutions shifting to automating their procedures and moving towards electronic governance,” pointing out that “this will prevent auditors from coming into contact with employees and reduce the chances of blackmailing them or demanding bribes from them in exchange for facilitating the completion of their transactions.”
He praised “the great and fruitful cooperation between the Authority and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in various fields, especially in the field of transition to digitization and achieving electronic governance,” noting that “the launch of the enterprise management system (Laser fiche) comes within a series of milestones.” Cooperation in this field.”
He pointed out, “The two parties cooperated in launching a project to establish a digital forensic laboratory (DFL), which seeks to support the Federal Integrity Commission in benefiting from the digital revolution and information technology in investigating corruption cases and prosecuting its perpetrators, and making it capable of tracking smuggled funds.
As a result of corruption crimes, it enhances its ability to detect corruption, fraud, and money laundering, investigate those crimes, and deter their perpetrators.”
Hanoun appreciated, “The efforts made by the Vice President of the Authority and the General Director of the Academy (Mazhar Turki Abd), its technical staff, and the rest of its employees in their seriousness and perseverance. In order to reach the start of automating all the academy’s procedures,”
he stressed that “this experiment, which he hopes will be successful, will be circulated among the rest of the authority’s departments and benefit from it in overcoming some of the obstacles that it may encounter,” while he explained that “the authority’s law allows it to carry out any work that contributes to combating Corruption or the prevention of it,
and also granting it the authority to use the means of scientific advancement, devices and machines for investigation, investigation, and evidence gathering, and to provide the requirements and requirements for their use in the field of detecting corruption crimes, preventing them, or prosecuting their perpetrators.” https://nnciraq.com/235812/