Judging arms deals with Russia needs to be based on facts rather than suspicions, says Araji

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP Zuhair al-Araji of the Hurra Iraqiya Slate, confirmed that judging the Arms deal concluded with Russia should be based on facts and evidences rather than on suspicions.

The parliament Integrity Committee announced submitting an appeal protesting the decision of canceling the corruption suspicions case of the Iraqi-Russian arms deal which.

The Iraqi government had concluded in 2012, a number of arms deals valued at $ 4.2 billion with Russia and Czech during the visit the Iraqi Premier, Nouri alMaliki to these two countries.

Araji told Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) “The judiciary will decide whether the arms deal with Russia was accompanied by corruption and the findings of the investigations will be shown to the public opinion.”