Parliament’s Integrity Committee Member denies charging Iraq’s Trade Minister with corruption

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Member of the Iraqi Parliament’s Integrity Committee, Alia Nuseif, has denied media reports that it had charged Trade Minister, Khueirullah Hassan Babakir, with corruption, describing such reports as “incorrect.”   “The reports that spoke about my accusation to the Trade Minister are incorrect, and I deny them, because there are no such charges against the Trade Minister, and I haven’t given such statements for any media service,” Nusaif told IraqiNews.com news agency on Wednesday.   She said that her notes about the Trade Ministry “were not related to charges with corruption, but I had some notes about the mechanism of insuring the Rational Card.. And, we in the Parliament’s Integrity Committee, are watching and following up that issue, because it is directly related to the food of the citizen, as well as our   notes regarding the contracts held by the Ministry.”   Some Iraqi media services had published a report recently, saying that Alia Nuseif, had charged Trade Minister, Khueirullah Hassan Babakir, with financial and administrative corruption, in the background of his signing of a contract with a certain company to purchase vegetable oil, whilst there had been contracts, presented by other companies for the same contract with better competitive prices, but the Minister’s decision fell on the company he had chosen, thing that was also denied by Nuseif.   SKH (IT)       555