He added, “What the Integrity Commission has done by investigating the presence of signatures and referrals with old dates, we confirm here that no manipulation has been proven by the commission, but rather they were all sound and legal procedures, and that the date of implementation of the withdrawal of hand and the commencement of the first deputy to be assigned to the position of governor was today, Wednesday 11/1/2023, and this confirms the safety of All administrative procedures by us and the absence of any tampering, stressing that “the minutes of the central committees are certified according to the competence of the technical, contractual, decision, accounting, auditing and legal authorities, and that all these signatures are present in the contracts that were signed, and there is a member who did not sign and was not present at the time and does not affect the progress of referral and contracting.
Al-Shaalan called on the investigation team of the Integrity Commission in Diwaniyah to “not falsify or distort the news, and adhere to the high professionalism and credibility required by the actual principles of integrity, as it was published on its official website that there is a manipulation of dates, and this has not been proven at all.”
And he stressed that “we have a response to that in accordance with the law before the judicial authorities, and that what the investigation team of the Integrity Commission in Diwaniyah did is just information and nothing else and arousing public opinion only.”