Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, issued three new directives on Sunday to enhance the anti-corruption efforts and the internal audit work in the government institutions, as part of the government’s strategy to fight and prevent corruption. His media office stated that the directives aim to address the threats that corruption poses to the government institutions and the public services that the citizens receive, and to improve the internal audit work in the government institutions and integrate its role with the role of the Federal Board of Supreme Audit, the Federal Commission of Integrity, and the law enforcement agencies. The first directive is to improve the internal audit procedures and extend its work scope by increasing the administrative level of the audit and internal audit formations in all government institutions, and assigning effective tasks for them to conduct audit of all kinds, on the spending of funds to achieve preventive audit procedures, and to avoid the squandering or losing of public funds and preserve them and uncover corruption and hold the corrupt accountable and take legal measures against them and offer legal…
