The Role of the Integrity Investigator in Administrative and Financial Corruption Cases Resulting From the Public Office

Humans have suffered throughout history from corruption in various forms, because it is one of the ancient social phenomena, and it has spread in recent times, especially in Iraq, due to the political and administrative authorities’ disobedience to clear and declared laws. Controls that enable them to control them, also because of the ignorance or fear of citizens or the absence of freedom of expression, and for many other reasons. And if the owners are forced to use it for purposes other than those granted to them, they will commit all kinds of administrative and financial corruption. Therefore, the problem of the study dealt with the multiplicity of supervisory authorities in the face of administrative and financial corruption crimes resulting from the public job and the ambiguity of the role of financial and administrative integrity. The study aimed at clarifying the obstacles and legislative shortcomings and proposing legal texts to address this, as well as clarifying the role of the integrity investigator in combating financial and administrative corruption crimes in the public office, indicating the type of financial and administrative corruption crimes in the public office, and developing methods for combating financial and administrative corruption crimes in the public office, as well as A statement of the reasons leading to the spread of the phenomenon of financial and administrative corruption in the public service and the development of mechanisms for ways to address it. The importance of the study emerged that limiting the spread of the phenomenon of financial and administrative corruption in the public office lies in the role of the Integrity Commission in general and the role of the integrity investigator in particular. Where the researcher used the descriptive analytical method to detect this. The researcher reached the conclusion that the formation of the Integrity Commission in Iraq after the fall of the Iraqi political regime in 2003 in response to the spread of the phenomenon of administrative and financial corruption in government institutions. It is an independent investigative body that investigates cases of government corruption, and this is done by a group of investigators appointed by the commission and work under the supervision of the investigative judge. The commission deals with two types of cases, namely corruption cases that occurred after (17/7/1968) to before the issuance of the founding law, where it is a party to the case and has the right to investigate it. As for the cases that occurred after the issuance of the founding law, it has the status of investigation only Integrity Commission Law No. 30 of 2011 in force on that.