{"id":199637,"date":"2026-07-10T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/199637\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:57:08","slug":"iraq-arrests-three-grain-silo-employees-over-farmer-extortion-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/199637\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq arrests three grain silo employees over farmer extortion &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-07-10T08:34:30+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&#8217;s Federal Commission of Integrity arrested on Friday three employees at a state-run grain silo in Maysan province on charges of forcing wheat farmers to pay illegal fees despite the government covering the cost of unloading services.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects include the head and two members of a committee responsible for overseeing loading, unloading and cleaning operations at the Amarah Grain Silo, which is operated by the State Company for <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Iraq-to-settle-nearly-1-2B-owed-to-wheat-farmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grain<\/a> Trading.<\/p>\n<p>The commission said investigators detained the suspects under Article 340 of Iraq&#8217;s Penal Code, which covers public officials accused of causing deliberate harm to state funds or interests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Iraq-s-farmers-fed-the-state-Now-they-re-waiting-to-be-paid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Iraq&#8217;s farmers fed the state. Now they&#8217;re waiting to be paid.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-10T08:34:30+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq&#8217;s Federal Commission of Integrity arrested on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,94,58906,20935,15671],"class_list":["post-199637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-arrests-three-grain-silo-employees-over-farmer-extortion","tag-maysan","tag-wheat"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116894855531587157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199637","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=199637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}