Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n
Iraqi authorities detained 31 officials, employees,
\ncontractors, and other suspects across seven separate corruption cases between
\nJuly 20 and 26, according to a Shafaq News review. The detentions spanned three
\nprovinces and seven government or public-administration areas, from provincial
\nadministration and state banking to water resources and local government, and
\ncoincided with newly announced seizures exceeding 41 billion Iraqi dinars
\n($31.3 million), $400,000, and 45 kilograms of gold.<\/p>\n
The arrests were carried out largely under judicial warrants
\nand referrals involving the Federal Integrity Commission, an independent state
\nbody mandated to investigate public-sector corruption, and the
\nCounter-Terrorism Service, with detentions recorded in Al-Diwaniyah, Saladin,
\nand Kirkuk.<\/p>\n
Read more: Iraq detains top officials in anti-corruption sweep: What we know so far<\/a><\/p>\n Forgery Network and Provincial Office Record the Largest The week’s largest single case reached Al-Diwaniyah, where Investigators documented 243 loan applications supported by Forged papers were submitted to courts, the Martyrs The properties and loans exposed to manipulation exceeded The second-largest case fell in Saladin, where eight Al-Diwaniyah, Kirkuk, and Saladin<\/p>\n Four contractors were detained in Al-Diwaniyah by a joint In Kirkuk, authorities arrested the director of the Two colonels in the Saladin Traffic Directorate were Federal Integrity Commission investigators also caught a In Saladin, a security force accompanied by the Federal Kirkuk Checkpoint Officers<\/p>\n Kirkuk Operations Command reported that officers accused of The operation also produced the seizure of 163 vehicles Where the Week’s Cases Fell<\/p>\n Measured by case category, the cross-institutional forgery By location, Al-Diwaniyah recorded 17 detentions, Saladin Money Seized and Recovered<\/p>\n The reporting period produced substantial recoveries in the Combined, the newly reported Al-Jumaili recoveries reached The judiciary separately announced the recovery of Read more: Can Iraq recover billions in stolen assets abroad?<\/a><\/p>\n Penalties, Audits, and the Next Phase<\/p>\n Several public-money cases advanced without new arrests. In In Diyala, a Provincial Office accounts official was Federal Board of Supreme Audit findings pointed to further The findings also flagged food-ration supply contracts A parliamentary file alleging financial and administrative Over Two Weeks<\/p>\n Over the two weeks from July 12 to 26, Shafaq News The first week recorded 27 detentions across defense and
\nCases<\/p>\n
\nthe Federal Integrity Commission announced the detention of 13 suspects after
\ndismantling \u201ca dangerous forgery network\u201d involving government employees,
\nlawyers, and others. The suspects included employees from the municipal,
\ncivil-status, passport, and residency directorates.<\/p>\n
\nforged guarantees and submitted to 12 state banks in several provinces, 13 land
\nplots allocated to ineligible applicants from outside the province, more than
\n600 forged residence and civil-status records, and more than 1,000 forged
\ndocuments in total.<\/p>\n
\nFoundation, the Pension Authority, the Article 140 Committee dealing with
\nclaims arising from Iraq\u2019s disputed-territories process, and the Social Welfare
\nFoundation, alongside fraudulent identities issued in the names of living and
\ndeceased people and manipulated electronic visas using altered barcodes.<\/p>\n
\nfour billion dinars ($3.05 million).<\/p>\n
\nemployees of the Saladin Provincial Office were arrested under judicial
\nwarrants in a financial-corruption case. A provincial spokesperson said
\nwarrants had been issued for 54 employees over administrative violations dating
\nback several years.<\/p>\n
\nCounter-Terrorism Service and Federal Integrity Commission force after raids
\ntied to municipal funds allegedly disbursed contrary to regulations. Reports
\nreferred to cash, gold, and luxury vehicles allegedly found during the
\noperations, though no quantities or values were officially confirmed.<\/p>\n
\nprovincial Veterinary Department and the head of the veterinary section in
\nShwan district under a judicial order over financial and administrative
\ncorruption allegations, with the amounts undisclosed.<\/p>\n
\narrested by the General Traffic Directorate over alleged embezzlement, forgery,
\nand manipulation of traffic-fine revenues. The alleged schemes were initially
\nlinked to 1.8 billion dinars ($1.37 million) and more than 350 million dinars
\n($267,176), a combined total exceeding 2.15 billion dinars ($1.64 million).<\/p>\n
\ndepartment director in the Kirkuk Water Resources Directorate while allegedly
\nreceiving money from a citizen. The operation followed a complaint accusing the
\nofficial of demanding payment to complete a transaction or provide
\nadministrative facilitation.<\/p>\n
\nIntegrity Commission arrested Provincial Council member Kamel Abbas Ashraf on
\ncorruption charges. The underlying allegations and financial amounts were not
\ndisclosed.<\/p>\n
\nexploiting their positions to facilitate smuggling through the Darman and Jemen
\ncheckpoints had been detained and referred for investigation, without stating
\nan exact number. Because no figure was published, those officers were excluded
\nfrom the weekly total.<\/p>\n
\ncarrying smuggled goods without customs payment, though those seizures covered
\n45 days and do not represent a weekly figure.<\/p>\n
\nnetwork accounted for 13 of the 31 detentions, provincial administration for
\neight, municipal administration and public contracting for four, agriculture
\nand veterinary services for two, and interior and traffic administration for
\ntwo. Water resources and the local legislature accounted for one detention
\neach.<\/p>\n
\n11, and Kirkuk three.<\/p>\n
\ncontinuing investigation into former Oil Ministry undersecretary Adnan
\nAl-Jumaili. The first judicial announcement covered 13 billion dinars ($9.92
\nmillion), $400,000, 40 gold bars weighing one kilogram each, and five kilograms
\nof gold jewelry, while a second, announced on July 26, covered 27 billion
\ndinars ($20.61 million) said to have been hidden with several people.<\/p>\n
\n40 billion dinars ($30.53 million), $400,000, and 45 kilograms of gold. No new
\narrest was reported in either update.<\/p>\n
\n1,143,847,719 dinars ($873,166) in a financial-fraud case, again without a new
\narrest. Total newly reported seizures and recoveries for the period stood at
\n41,143,847,719 dinars ($31.41 million), $400,000, and 45 kilograms of gold.<\/p>\n
\nDhi Qar, a Nasiriyah municipal official and his wife, also a municipal
\nemployee, were each sentenced to five years in prison and fined 1.8 billion
\ndinars ($1.37 million) and $800,000, for combined penalties of 3.6 billion
\ndinars ($2.75 million) and $1.6 million.<\/p>\n
\ninvestigated over the premature release of a guarantee on a road-maintenance
\nand paving contract valued at 1.2616 billion dinars ($963,053), after
\ninspectors found cracks, subsidence, and serious damage months after
\ncompletion. The official was presented before an investigative judge but was
\nnot confirmed detained.<\/p>\n
\nvulnerabilities. Defense Ministry scrap at the Al-Taji and Balad sites was sold
\ndirectly for 200,000 dinars ($153) per ton, while comparable scrap at the
\nOfficers Club was sold through public auction for 630,000 dinars ($481) per
\nton, a difference of 430,000 dinars ($328) per ton.<\/p>\n
\nawarded to a single private company, bonuses paid from performance-guarantee
\ndeposits tied to the food-basket contract, and contracts awarded without proper
\nverification of letters of guarantee.<\/p>\n
\ncorruption within Federal Board of Supreme Audit offices, including concealment
\nof corruption files and preferential treatment for relatives of influential
\nofficials, was completed for referral to the Federal Integrity Commission and
\nPublic Prosecution. No arrest had been announced in connection with the audit<\/a>
\nfindings by the end of July 26.<\/p>\n
\ndocumented 58 confirmed detentions<\/a> across the two reporting periods, spanning
\nsix provinces and operational jurisdictions: Baghdad, Nineveh, Kirkuk,
\nAl-Diwaniyah, Diyala, and Saladin.<\/p>\n
\nmilitary works, customs and border administration, oil, municipal
\nadministration, health, finance and pensions, and the legislature, while the second week recorded 31 detentions across a
\ncross-institutional forgery network, provincial administration, municipal
\ncontracting, agriculture and veterinary services, traffic administration, water
\nresources, and the Saladin Provincial Council.<\/p>\n