The Federal Integrity Commission announced yesterday, Tuesday 6 employees arrested for embezzlement in Nineveh .
The Government Communications and Media Office said in a statement: “The judge of the Nineveh Investigation Court, which specializes in examining integrity cases, reported that a team from the Authority’s Investigation Directorate in the governorate was able to arrest (3) employees of the Oil Products Distribution Authority in the governorate, two of whom work in the cutting unit and one in the Internal Control and Audit Division, on the grounds that they organized gas cutting forms for the month of March 2024, based on fictitious check numbers; which resulted in a deficit between the quantities sold of the product and the amounts paid to the fund .”
He added, “The accused embezzled sums of public money, indicating that” the operation resulted in the seizure of gas forms exceeding the amounts of the checks and the seizure of those forms, noting that “the seizure operation was carried out based on the decision of the competent investigating judge and in accordance with the provisions of Article (331) of the Penal Code .”
In a related context and in a separate operation, the statement confirmed that “the team was able to arrest (3) defendants in the same company, on the background of their promotion of transactions to renew generator fuel books for deceased persons with previous dates and forged signatures, in addition to previous pledges. All original transactions, numbering (11), were also seized .”
He pointed out that “two formal seizure reports were prepared for the two operations that were carried out, based on the provisions of Articles (331 and 340) of the Penal Code, and they were presented, along with the accused and the exhibits, before the competent investigating judges, who decided to detain the accused in the two operations pending investigation.”
