Independent Coordinating Committee for Combating Corruption in Iraq

The Independent Coordinating Committee for Combating Corruption in Iraq (ICCCCI) is an independent international entity of the multilateral coalition (Consortium) of not-for-profit organizations. It is created to combat and reduce the incidence of major crime and to continuously improve the integrity of power in Iraq and to reduce the incidence of misconduct in the public and private sectors. As a Substitutional to the most corrupted units, the Crime Justice and Investigation Unit functions of the ICCCCI exist primarily as a consequence of the corruption findings of long-term, systemic political corruption, police corruption and abuse of power in Iraq. The ICCCCI also has a witness protection function. The committee was established on 1 January 2014, when the first established Criminal Justice Unit and the Crime Investigation Unit were merged into a single entity under the name Crime Justice and Investigation Unit. As the functions of the Commission is seeking to determine the environment of rampant corruption in Iraq, types, and detection of serious effects on the civil, political, economic and cultural rights of the Iraqi people, and the prosecution of corruption capital prosecuted wherever they are through international courts. The Commission has begun work tasks within the framework of the United Nations Convention against Corruption in 2005, and according to the basic essence of the Convention: preventive standards, criminalization and law enforcement, and asset recovery and international cooperation.