Iraq seeks Interpol alerts for former officials over US$2.5bil graft

Iraq’s Integrity Commission chief judge Haider Hanoun announced the move to seek Interpol Red Notices for former senior officials today.

The scandal centres on suspected illegitimate cash withdrawals from the commission between 2021 and 2022 totalling around US$2.5 billion, according to Iraqi officials – a staggering amount even in a country that regularly ranks among the world’s most corrupt. Hanoun said the judiciary would also ask for notices to be issued for the private secretary and a political advisor to former prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi.

Allawi resigned from the government in August 2022 citing political interference in government work and graft. He has since said that he took steps to prevent theft from occurring at the tax commission but that his decisions were ignored by other officials.Current Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said one of his priorities is fighting the rampant corruption that pervades the Iraqi state and has led to the pilfering of untold billions of the country’s oil wealth dollars over the years.

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