Parl. to question oil minister today

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Parliament today will question Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahrestani on charges of administrative and financial corruption. During a press conference on Monday (Nov. 9), MP Haydar al-Jourani from the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) said that the Council of Representatives had agreed to a request presented by al-Shahrestani to question him on Tuesday (Nov. 10) instead of Wednesday (Nov. 11), denying that the minister had gone to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage. The chairman of the parliamentary Commission on Public Integrity (CPI), Sabah al-Saedi, had called on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to fight corruption in the Oil Ministry. SS (P) 1