Former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has acknowledged that an error occurred in the handling of the case involving Bahaa Abdul Hussein, owner of Qi Card, after years of injustice affecting him and his company in one of the most controversial files linked to the Abu Ragheef Committee.
This admission cannot be separated from the legal course that determined the committee fate, as Iraq Federal Supreme Court annulled the Diwani Order creating it and affirmed that combating corruption does not justify bypassing the Constitution or infringing human freedom and dignity.
The committee work was also accompanied by serious accusations, following reports addressing allegations of torture, humiliation and coerced confessions. Such practices cannot be treated as marginal mistakes should they be established before the competent judicial authorities.
Al-Kadhimi admission returns the case of Bahaa Abdul Hussein to its essential reality, namely that an Iraqi businessman and a national company endured the consequences of flawed procedures during the tenure of a government that established a committee whose legal basis was later invalidated by the judiciary.
