Today, Saturday, MP Yasser Hashem regarded the Ministry of Transport’s signing of the railway development contract as the “theft of the century” in Iraq.
Hashem stated in a statement to that effect that “the Ministry of Transport has assigned the same implementing company to operate it for 43 years, and this is a disaster” and that “the Iraqi government will give the company implementing the project 22 billion dollars in addition to oil or one of the natural resources to build iron cars only.”
He went on to say, “This contract will mortgage the railways to the private sector and will cause great harm to this sector, in addition to Iraq losing a lot of money, at a rate that may reach 90 percent,” calling it “the theft of the era in Iraq.”
He made sense of that “this is a bad arrangement that the cheats of the hundred years and the criminals of the period have participated on, and their endeavors have consolidated to contract the country’s assets along these lines,” taking note of that “the work expected to be executed under this agreement incorporates just 700 kilometers.”
He continued: A pastor can’t sign such huge totals, and in this manner 1,000 question marks are raised about what’s going on in the administration of state reserves.”
Judge Haider Hanoun, who is in charge of the Integrity Commission, sparked controversy when he announced that the $18 billion railway development contract contained a waste of money as part of the century’s biggest theft. Parliamentarians, on the other hand, branded the contract as illegal and humiliating.
