BAGHDAD: The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has closed its weekly auction sessions for the sale and purchase of foreign currencies on Thursday with selling 194 million US dollars, on an average rate of 1,170 dinars per dollar, the CBI's daily bulletin reported.

Chairman of Iraq's Integrity Commission leaves his post Thursday

BAGHDAD: The Chairman of Iraq's Integrity Commission, Judge Rahim al-Ugeily, who was reported to have resigned recently, has left his post on Thursday, according to a source close to Ugeily.

"An administrative order was issued today (Thursday) for the departure of Judge Rahim al-Ugeily from his post with the Integrity Commission," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, adding that "Ugeily won't attend his post with the Supreme Judicial Council and he is on a long leave now."

The Chairman of Iraq's Integrity Commission, Rahim al-Ugeily, had presented his resignation officially to Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, "due to pressures by certain political parties he had charged with having exerted efforts to cover up the stealing of State funds," according to local media sources.

Prime Minister Maliki had told a local TV Satellite Channel recently that the Integrity Commission had failed to fight corruption in the State Institutions.

 

Noteworthy is that a source to al-Daawa Party, led by Maliki, had stated recently that Prime Minister Maliki "had been planning to replace Ugeily by a person, close to the Party, called Ala'a al-Sa'edy.

Ugeily had stated that Iraq had been suffering from a serious corruption, charging more than 500 director-generals with having been involved in corruption cases.