Hoorah... I was part of the team that setup the Iraqi anti-corruption agency, and here, they conducted a sting and caught an Iraqi Brigadier General taking a $50,000 bribe. In 2004-2006, our team of US advisers setup the agency which went from 0 to about 1200 employees. We had a team of several REALLY experienced investigators teaching the Iraqi investigators how to conduct stings and gather evidence to stand up in Iraqi courts. At one time, a lot of our ordered surveillance equipment was not being delivered through the US Army run procurement process, and I conducted our own investigation, found gaping holes in the US Army procedures and finally got our equipment which took over a year.
So, it seems like some of that training "took" and the Integrity Commission (formerly the Commission of Public Integrity or CPI) is on a roll.
vj
Head of Iraq's SWAT force arrested for graft
BAGHDAD (March 12, 2011): The commander of Iraq's rapid response force was arrested after a set-up in which he was filmed taking a $50,000 (RM151,975) bribe from a contractor, a member of Iraq's integrity panel said on Saturday.
Brigadier General Numan Dakhil was caught taking the bribe near Baghdad International airport on Thursday but escaped anti-corruption watchdog investigators after his guards beat them, Sabah al-Saedi, a member of the Integrity Committee, said.
Dakhil was later arrested on Friday.
"Eight of the Integrity Commission investigators seized him while he was receiving a sum from the contractor. The incident has been recorded with legal evidence," Saedi told Reuters.
"Brigadier General Numan Dakhil was arrested yesterday, he is under investigation now."
Corruption has been a major problem for Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and the country is ranked as one of the world's most corrupt nations in Transparency International's annual corruption perceptions index. --Reuters
Updated: 07:59PM Sat, 12 Mar 2011
http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=58678
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