Former US President George W. Bush caused a wide resonance in the media and social networks after a slip in which he signed about the Russian military operation in Ukraine. The former president, in his speech at the Bush Institute, said that it was the electoral system in Russia that led to the escalation in Ukraine: I mean Ukraine…
“And Iraq,” Bush continued in confusion to the laughter of the public and added, trying to get out of an awkward situation, “I am 75 years old.”
In a different context, the Iraqi Commission on Integrity called on the United States to cooperate in the extradition of convicts living in the United States of America and the return of smuggled Iraqi funds, and the commission called – in a statement released by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) – to overcome the obstacles imposed by the laws of some countries that prevent Iraq from returning the convicts and their illegally imported assets, while confirming that the US side did not respond to Iraq’s reports regarding 14 files regarding the residence of the convicts. In the United States.
The statement said commission head Alaa Jawad Al-Saadi met at the commission’s headquarters with a delegation of U.S. embassy court attache and Treasury Department spokesman Alan Andressi to discuss ways of cooperation and closer ties between the two parties, as well as the possibility of providing legal assistance in investigating major cases of international corruption and the return of convicted and smuggled assets.
Al Saadi praised “the role of international partners in assisting the authority in the fight against corruption, as well as the cooperation and support it provides to national regulators; Fulfill their objectives to reduce corruption and save public money, especially in the field of recovery in accordance with the provisions of chapter five of the UN Convention against Corruption.” impede the return by Iraq of convicts and their illegally imported assets, including dual citizenship, and for other reasons, such as the integration of these funds into the economies of these countries, which is an obstacle to the success of these efforts.” liaison between the Iraqi Fund Recovery Fund and the US Department of the Treasury to exchange information on former regime funds and certain individuals on the United Nations sanctions list; Ensure funds are not confiscated when transferred to Iraq.
For her part, Justice Department Attaché at the U.S. Embassy Alan Andressi “expressed her country’s readiness to cooperate with Iraq in the field of legal assistance for the recovery of assets, convicts and illegally exported funds”, explaining that “a delay that may occur in the recovery file with Iraq , is associated with false information, dual citizenship and the receipt by the defendants of a residence permit.
