TIKRIT UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOR RIGHTS

Constitutional rules are in the first place the cornerstone of the legal structure of the state, and under this framework the rest of the legal rules regulated by the legal structure within the state come out, so these rules define the official philosophy of criminal law in two aspects (substantive and procedural) in the state, where criminalization and punishment are considered the most dangerous Legislative matters relating to the freedom of the individual to the extent of the consequences. It stipulates that the criminal protection of rights and freedoms is the work of the ordinary legislator, but the legislator’s movement in this protection is consistent with the constitution, which specifies direct and indirect means to protect the principle of criminal legitimacy.

Corruption is a destructive phenomenon in a cold manner, where specialists in combating corruption crimes agree that this kind of crimes is one of the intertwined global problems that have made many international and local institutions and companies deal with it as an obstacle to reform, development and proper investment, as a result of distorting the image of integrity. It is committed by people who are at the forefront of society and serve as ideal models for its members. Consequently, its commission and widespread created a society that is unable to produce good seeds capable of preserving public interests. Therefore, they should be combated by all means which may foremost namely be: first, the penal legislation as the most effective in combating these crimes, or rather combating this phenomenon, which is the way that the Iraqi legislator dealt with as the crimes of corruption in the Iraqi amended Penal Code No. (111) 1969 in the section of crimes against the obligations of the job, and established several competent bodies to combat this phenomenon, as well as ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption of 2003, and in this sense comes the importance of research on the subject of combating corruption in the Iraqi criminal legislation, and the effectiveness of the criminal legislation of Iraq to confront the crimes of corruption, and the extent of compliance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Accordingly, we divided the research into two sections: the first dealt with what is the crime of corruption, while the second is devoted to the statement of the criminal framework "to fight the crime of corruption", and we have concluded the search with a conclusion which clarified a number of conclusions and recommendations. Therefore, its became very clear for us that Corruption in government institutions has absorbed as many forms of corruption as possible, but these images do not include all forms of corruption the legal texts overlooked many of the important images provided for in the UN Convention of 2003.