Iraq’s Pilgrimage Commission charged with wasting US$8 millions

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Member of the Iraqi Parliament’s Integrity Committee, Khalid Abdullah al-Alwani, has announced his Committee’s intention to open what he described as “corruption dossiers of Iraq‘s Pilgrimage Commission,” charging it with having wasted 8 million US dollars during the current Pilgrimage Season. “It is necessary to put an end for all corruption dossiers in the said Commission, being one of the executive institutions dealing with one of the most outstanding Islamic duties, being the Pilgramage (to Mecca),” Alwani said in a statement issued by his office on Wednesday, charging that “anarchism, that had been witnessed by the Pilgrimage teams during this season and the previous seasons, had been outragous.” “We are on our way to complete checking the corruption dossiers of the said Commission and then question its Chairman, after its confirmation, taking into consideration that we have received complains regarding the wasting of 8 million dollars during this year’s Pilgramage, through renting 6,000 beds in Saudi Arabia, that was added by the latter for Iraq,” Alwany concluded. SKH (PT) 372