‘Corruption on rise in Iraqi Kurdistan’

Transparency International (TI) organization announced in its latest report in 2011 that the Republic of Iraq, including Kurdistan Regional Government, is among the eight most corrupt countries in the world, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday.

The new Cabinet of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) says it admits that there is corruption in institutions and has promised a comprehensive administrative reform.

Local officials in KRG are calling for more transparency within institutions to end corruption in the region.

“Corruption in Kurdistan region has become a reality and no one can hide it from the public, and unfortunately it has reached a worrying point. Governmental officials think it is not a big deal, but actually it is a very great deal… Without active monitoring and transparent institution I don’t think it would end so easily,” Adnan Osman, a member of Kurdish Parliament told our reporter in an interview.

Iraqi government has recently said that the latest reports of TI on corruption in Iraq are not accurate as they lack Iraqi government’s official reports.

Last year, thousands of people in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah, located in north of Iraq, gathered to protest against nepotism and incompetence as well as what they called anti-democratic measures adopted by the government.

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