Arrest warrants issued against Iraqi diplomat, merchant

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Parliament’s Integrity Committee has reported on Monday that 2 arrest warrants have been issued against a diplomat of the Iraqi Embassy in Denmark and an Iraqi merchant, for importing goods that do not abide by proper specifications, the Integrity Committee’s spokesman reported.   “An arrest warrant has been issued against the Charge d’Affaires of the Iraq Embassy in Copenhagen, Faris Shaker Fattouhi, on charges of stealing Embassy funds,” Khalid Abdullah al-Alwany said. He added that another arrest warrant was issued against an Iraqi merchant, Omar al-Mash’hadany, on charges of importing materials for Iraq, that did not carry his company’s documents to prove their coping with the necessary specifications. “The Parliament’s Integrity Committee shall ask the Foreign Ministry to order the said diplomat to return back for Iraq, in order to send him to the courts for trial,” he concluded. RM (TP)/SR 308