Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 The Iraqi judiciary has officially confiscated $20.3 million in cash, 60 kilograms of gold, 200 million Iraqi dinars, and seven luxury vehicles in a significant operation related to Deputy Oil Minister for Refining Affairs Adnan al-Jumaili\u2019s widening corruption case.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Investigating Judge Diaa Jaafar of the Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court announced the large-scale recovery of assets, according to the state-run Iraqi News Agency (INA).<\/p>\n
The operation was carried out in close collaboration between Iraq\u2019s federal authorities and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).<\/p>\n
The seizures are part of an anti-corruption campaign aimed at recovering state funds lost due to financial mismanagement, embezzlement of refinery projects, and illicit contracts involving al-Jumaili and his associates.<\/p>\n
Al-Jumaili was arrested in May 2026 during the intensive anti-corruption campaign led by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.<\/p>\n
This particular case has evolved into one of the most extensive corruption investigations in contemporary Iraqi history, with unusual hideouts for stolen state assets.<\/p>\n
Over the past few months, detectives monitoring al-Jumaili\u2019s network have discovered hundreds of millions of dollars and gold bars concealed behind residential walls, buried in plastic water bottles, and placed within a rainwater catch basin.<\/p>\n
According to Iraq\u2019s Supreme Judicial Council, the total assets collected during the investigation with al-Jumaili surpass $125 million in cash, including hundreds of kilos of gold and dozens of luxurious properties. <\/p>\n
The Iraqi judiciary emphasized that al-Jumaili\u2019s confessions have brought into question dozens of lawmakers and senior government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 The Iraqi judiciary has officially confiscated $20.3 million in cash, 60 kilograms of gold, 200…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[55467,60863,7833,8310,94,48710,2733,4508,69546],"class_list":["post-251326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-anti-corruption-campaign","tag-central-anti-corruption-criminal-court","tag-corruption","tag-gold","tag-iraq","tag-iraqi-judiciary","tag-krg","tag-kurdistan-regional-government","tag-luxury-vehicles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117105175786812497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251326","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=251326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}