Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility an ...
Radhi Hamza al-Radhi was the head of
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
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Commission on Public Integrity
The Iraqi Commission of Integrity ( ar, هيئة النزاهة; CoI), formerly known as the Commission on Public Integrity (CPI), is an independent commission within the government of Iraq tasked with preventing and investigating corruption at al ...
. He believes that corruption has cost Iraq £9 billion in the past three years and that most of the money has ended up in the hands of the sectarian militias.
On October 4, 2007, al-Radhi appeared before the
U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and accused the government of Prime Minister
Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of protecting corrupt employees and of actively attempting to "eradicate or control the Commission" and refusing to recognize the independence of the Commission on Public Integrity in violation of the Iraqi Constitution.
The government responded by announcing they would sue al-Radhi for smuggling official documents, defaming the prime minister, and corruption.
He was granted asylum in the United States in July 2008.
References
External links
Iraq’s ousted corruption buster seeks asylum in AmericaExile condemns Iraqi 'corruption'"Is Maliki's corruption worth American lives?"by Representative
Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Corruption InvestigationsUS House Overwhelmingly Approves Measure on Iraq Corruption‘Eliot Ness of Iraq’ Wins Asylum
Living people
20th-century Iraqi lawyers
Iraqi exiles
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Iraqi lawyers
Iraqi emigrants to the United States
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