{"id":252964,"date":"2026-08-17T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/252964\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:55:07","slug":"al-rasheed-bank-dismisses-role-in-iraqs-fake-employee-payroll-case-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/252964\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Rasheed Bank dismisses role in Iraq\u2019s fake employee payroll case &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-17T15:24:57+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>Al-Rasheed Bank denied on Monday any involvement in the case<br \/>\nof so-called \u201cghost employees\u201d at Iraq\u2019s Ministry of Electricity, clarifying<br \/>\nthat its role is limited to disbursing salaries based on official payroll lists<br \/>\nsubmitted by the ministry. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/Finance-Ministry-plans-state-owned-bank-merger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bank<\/a> described claims linking it to the<br \/>\npayment of salaries to fictitious employees at the ministry as inaccurate. \u201cSalary<br \/>\ndomiciliation procedures are carried out according to approved regulations and<br \/>\nbased on official lists submitted by the relevant authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the<br \/>\nMinistry of Electricity stated that it had identified 549 fictitious employees<br \/>\nwhose names had allegedly been added to payrolls and whose salaries had been<br \/>\ndomiciled through collusion with external entities and institutions, including<br \/>\nAl-Rasheed Bank and the General Directorate of Vocational Education.<\/p>\n<p>The bank explained that the Ministry of Electricity sends<br \/>\nmonthly payroll lists through officially signed correspondence from authorized<br \/>\nofficials. The bank\u2019s role, it added, is limited to processing salary payments<br \/>\naccording to the lists and data provided by the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Verifying employees\u2019 attendance, physical presence at work,<br \/>\ncommencement of duties, and compliance with official working hours falls under<br \/>\nthe responsibility of the ministry and its affiliated departments, not the<br \/>\nbank, the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-17T15:24:57+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Al-Rasheed Bank denied on Monday any involvement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[69982,152,69983,94,6142],"class_list":["post-252964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-al-rasheed-bank-dismisses-role-in-iraqs-fake-employee-payroll-case","tag-breaking","tag-ghost-employees","tag-iraq","tag-rasheed-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117111667387248700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}