On Monday, Iraq’s Ministry of Finance denied statements attributed to Minister Taif Sami regarding salary cuts for navy and police personnel.
In a declaration, the ministry denied the claims attributed to the finance minister concerning the profits scale law, pointing out that they were false. It clarified that the minister did no longer recommend that the postpone in passing the regulation became due to excessive salaries for the military and police, nor did she call for revenue cuts for those companies.
“those claims, in conjunction with other misleading records, are baseless,” the ministry said, caution that any rumors or fabricated statements “aimed toward distorting economic and accounting guidelines” might be difficulty to felony motion. The ministry similarly referred to as on all parties and individuals to “keep away from circulating unverified data.”
in advance, social media systems circulated a declaration allegedly made through Minister Sami, wherein she introduced, “The motive the revenue scale hasn’t been carried out and price range have now not been allocated is the [high] salaries of the military, police, and the famous Mobilization Forces. due to them, there is a budget deficit, and their salaries need to be reduced from 1.6 million to one million dinars so that you can enforce the brand new profits scale.”
