{"id":134724,"date":"2026-05-28T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/134724\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:39:07","slug":"iraq-stops-1b-state-bank-fraud-scheme-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/134724\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq stops $1B+ state bank fraud scheme &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-28T10:43:45+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>Iraq\u2019s anti-corruption authorities have blocked an attempt<br \/>\nto siphon 1.5 trillion Iraqi dinars ($1.15 billion) from two state-owned banks,<br \/>\nRafidain and Rasheed, the Federal Commission of Integrity reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Described as one of the largest financial fraud schemes<br \/>\nuncovered in recent months, the operation involved a three-member network<br \/>\naccused of attempting to cash seven forged cheques, along with a sales contract<br \/>\nvalued at 612 billion dinars (about $470 million). <\/p>\n<p>Authorities have detained the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq has <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/Iraq-recovers-nearly-1B-in-anti-corruption-drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recovered<\/a> nearly one trillion dinars (about $770<br \/>\nmillion) in public funds over the past year through judicial action targeting<br \/>\ndozens of senior officials, including ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-28T10:43:45+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s anti-corruption authorities have blocked an attempt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[18734,29761,94,44841,44842,44389,6142],"class_list":["post-134724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-federal-commission-of-integrity","tag-fraud","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-stops-1b-state-bank-fraud-scheme","tag-public-fund","tag-rafidain-bank","tag-rasheed-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116652013228396560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134724","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=134724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}