Sources: Central Bank recovered $ 10 billion, and implement a plan to equalize the Iraqi dinar in U.S. dollars


03/03/2010 Wednesday 18 - the first spring -1431


Financial sources familiar with the "home" for the restoration of the Iraqi Central Bank to more than $ 10 billion and deposits from the former regime seized in international banks, There are efforts to restore the funds other than the value of contracts and deals signed under Saddam Hussein's regime was supplemented after the war for the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

The financial sources familiar with "Al-Watan that" the United Iraqi Alliance bloc that nominated Bayan Jabr Zubaidi the next prime minister after the election, betting on the disclosure of such information described terms to augment the Iraqi National Coalition election, especially with the assurances of the Iraqi Central Bank study revalue Iraqi by deleting the 3 zeros from the nominal value of the current, and the U.S. dollar equivalent of one Iraqi dinar.
Mudhir Mohammed Salih, adviser to the central bank raising project yellowing of the currency promoted by the government in 2007, "Central Bank Itboukh on the backburner" and expected to see the end of 2010 or early 2011 on the development project. "

In the meantime, the central bank will continue the policy of stabilizing the exchange rate dinar to the dollar, "Al-Watan" that the central bank seeks to raise the value of the Iraqi dinar of 1180 dinars per U.S. dollar to 1000 dinars per U.S. dollars, within the month of June, and on the extent of conflict this policy with the policy of economic reform, followed by Iraq since 2003, under which the installation is a departure from the principles of capitalism Judge freely exchange rate liberalization, the centralbank adviser said that "Iraq is in transition toward a market economy as it targets the central bank has worked to achieve the stability of the dinar exchange rate after The fluctuation is a concern for the citizen. "

In response to the indictment of the central responsibility of rising inflation, despite the policy followed by the installation, Saleh said that "the Central is not interested in lower prices in the marketplace but is responsible for the overall level of prices, and inflation declined in the country and income for the first time arranged to one decimal place, a 6% after was 60% even though there is no price in the world series back to back, but important that the price hikes under control. "

For its part, said an economic expert, Dr. Salama Smeisim for "home," said the leaked information from sources close to the Central Bank of Iraq can put things in different scales and different, and is considered central bank's ability to retrieve these funds from large international banks, each claimant to intervene in monetary policy, which it is exclusively the prerogative of the centralbank , particularly because a lot of economic advisers in the Iraqi government demanded to borrow from Iraq's financial deposits at the centralbank to cover the deficit in the general budget of the government, said Simasim must "stop such claims at a certain without encroachment on the powers of the monetary authorities. "
She stressed the importance of "keeping the rule of the dinar, above all, because the existence of such quantities of cash allows the authorities concerned to use this cash to address the liquidity shortage faced by the Iraqi budget and is the argument or excuse invoked by some in his allusions to demand the seizure of the existing stockpile of CentralBank

Editor: AlMarsad

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