Posted on 11/21/2019 10:48:53 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Najah al-Shammari, Defense Minister of Iraq, as well as his wife, are both on Swedish welfare. The top Iraqi politician, who became a Swedish citizen in 2015, is currently under investigation for welfare fraud, a police source tells Nyheter Idag.
Najah al-Shammari’s current registered residence is in a suburb of Stockholm, despite him being the Defense Minister of Iraq. Al-Shammari is also a Swedish citizen, something which he achieved in 2015, after six years in Sweden. A story which Nyheter Idag revealed earlier in the week using legal documents and several sources, one being AFP journalist Ammar Karim, based in Baghdad.
Being registered at the wrong address is a criminal offence in Sweden. Al-Shammari and his wife are also investigated for welfare fraud.
Despite working as Defense Minister, al-Shammari still receives welfare from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). Neither al-Shammari nor his wife have a registered income the last couple of years.
In their application for welfare from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the couple also claims that they have no income.
A police source tells Nyheter Idag that there is an ongoing investigation into al-Shammari and his wife.
– Both he and his wife are on welfare, says the police source.
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency is responsible for paying out the welfare to the Iraqi Defense Minister and wife. On a monthly basis they are receiving in total circa 9 400 Swedish Krona, or $976, according to the police source.
– In their application, which they have both signed, it is stated that they both are living on welfare from the local government.
The police were alerted on the matter of the Iraqi top politician and his wife by an anonymous tip in early November, a little more than a week prior to Nyheter Idag’s first article on Najah al-Shammari.
”The informant is anonymous. He/she claims that all of the family (al-Shammari’s) has been living in Iraq for several years. The husband is the Defense Minister of Iraq. They return to Sweden for a week or so every year, doing so they maintain the perception of them living in Sweden. The children are supposedly registered at some private school in Sweden. The apartment is supposedly rented out to someone else”, reads the police report.
Further, the Iraqi Defense Minister have been a suspect in nine different cases with the Swedish police since 2015.
Early November, a different offence was reported to the police. This time, it is Najah al-Shammari who is the complaintant. This report confirms that al-Shammari is living in Iraq, while having his registered residence in a Stockholm suburb.
– Someone has ordered different products (online) to send to his address, according to a relative he has been abroad since January 2019, says the police source.
Nyheter Idag has reached out to relatives of Najah al-Shammari. A female, seemingly his daughter, answered when Nyheter Idag called, but hung up when asked about al-Shammari.
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency has also opened up an investigation, says the police source.
I don't care who you are... this is funny.
Pathetic, but funny.
Hey brother, can you spare a dime?
He’s smart. Iraq is tumbling toward becoming a failed state due to the Iranian influence they’ve allowed and the corruption. He had an out for him and his family.
When I was living in NH they arrested a lady who was working for the Dominican Consulate in New York City and collecting welfare in Massachusetts.
Here’s the thing to think about. There’s probably well over a thousand ‘pretender’ immigrants just like this. They show up.....do the paperwork, and interviews. Then when granted the monthly payment (near $1,000) for welfare only, they board the plane and go ‘home’.
All of these Swedish authorities who think hundreds of thousands of migrants are there...might want to do surprise visits. Course, they might discover over 20,000 migrants ‘missing’.
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This is hilarious.
Glad to see I was not the only one that burst out laughing when I read this.
I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation. Have you people never heard of telecommuting? OK, maybe not. Do we know this is the same Najah al-Shammari? I mean, it's a very common Swedish name, after all. Could be two of them, one a humble dealer of reindeer in the northern tundra, the other the Defense Minister of Iraq. Or one guy moonlighting.
Massive international fraud, nice! Biden sez we should be more like them
This is what government by female SJW gets you. And if you point outs this and all the other bad things happening with “refugees” and “migrants” in Sweden, you’re a xenophobic criminal who can be prosecuted
I post in Mexico. Personally, have known of DOZENS of politicians, get their wife a VISA to the USA, primarily California when the wife is 6 months pregnant. Go have their baby at taxpayers expense, come back with a birth certificate, and a baby who in 18 years can get a U.S. Passport. ALL THE TIME.
I’m not sure, but I think a serious crime has been committed here—even perhaps a hate crime—by the newspaper reporting this. Dragging a poor refugee’s name through the mud and publicly shaming him should be against the law. The newspaper should be prosecuted. Perhaps the Swedes can use the same team that prosecuted the group that recorded Planned Parenthood execs selling baby parts.
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