The Supreme Judicial Council announced the arrest of a number of speculators in the national currency.
A statement by the council stated that, under the supervision of the Third Karkh Investigation Court and in coordination with a work team from the National Security Agency, the Iraqi Anti-Money Laundering Office and the Exchange Control Department in the Central Bank of Iraq, those accused of suspicious banking activities were arrested and admitted that they had taken companies to do business as a cover to smuggle currency out of Iraq.
It explained that: “These companies were raided in separate areas of Baghdad, and sums of money estimated at fifteen million dollars were seized, which were deposited with the Central Bank after the Anti-Money Laundering Office submitted its reports containing suspicions of money laundering in a manner that monopolized the dollar currency in this way.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency