{"id":222279,"date":"2026-07-25T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/222279\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:45:09","slug":"iraq-arrests-al-diwaniyah-municipal-officials-in-corruption-probe-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/222279\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq arrests Al-Diwaniyah municipal officials in corruption probe – Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shafaq News- Al-Diwaniyah<\/p>\n

Three former and current senior
\nofficials from Iraq’s Al-Diwaniyah Municipality were detained early Saturday in an
\nanti-corruption operation, a source told Shafaq News. <\/p>\n

The Falcons Intelligence Cell,
\naccompanied by a team from Iraq’s Federal Commission of Integrity, arrested
\nformer Al-Diwaniyah<\/a> Municipality directors Ali Rahman and Hatif Suwaid, along with
\nthe municipality’s current projects director, Ali Aflouk.<\/p>\n

Authorities, according to the
\nsource, continue to pursue others suspected of involvement in alleged
\ncorruption cases linked to the municipality, including investigations into
\nalleged “ghost projects” and irregularly issued checks worth hundreds
\nof millions of Iraqi dinars.<\/p>\n

Read more: Iraq’s Dawn Crackdown by numbers: 67 arrests
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