# Data downloads (12 Oct 2026)

Every dataset on the site, as CSV (opens in Excel with Arabic intact) and as an Excel workbook whose second sheet, *About this file*, explains the file in plain words: what it holds, where it comes from, what each column means and what its terms mean. `data_dictionary.csv` lists every column of every file; `glossary.csv` explains the terms.

| File | What it holds | Rows | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| `accountability_asset_recovery` | **Asset recovery: money Iraq sought and recovered abroad**. Every figure carries the exact words of its source. | 149 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `accountability_evidence_asset_recovery` | **Asset recovery: quotes from the sources**. Every figure carries the exact words of its source. | 155 |  |
| `accountability_evidence_fbsa` | **Federal Board of Supreme Audit: quotes from the reports**. Every figure carries the exact words of its source. | 190 |  |
| `accountability_evidence_integrity_commission` | **Integrity Commission: quotes from the sources**. Every figure carries the exact words of its source. | 185 | 2004 to 2025 |
| `accountability_evidence_parliament` | **Parliament: quotes from the sources**. Every figure carries the exact words of its source. | 146 |  |
| `accountability_fbsa_reports_inventory` | **Federal Board of Supreme Audit: reports**. Every figure carries the exact words of its source. | 43 | 2011 to 2026 |
| `accountability_integrity_commission_annual_stats` | **Integrity Commission: yearly statistics**. Every figure carries the exact words of its source. | 40 | 2004 to 2025 |
| `accountability_parliament_reports_inventory` | **Parliament: inquiry findings**. Every figure carries the exact words of its source. | 63 | 2012 to 2026 |
| `aml_documents` | **Anti-money-laundering documents**. The CBI's anti-money-laundering instructions and notices. | 172 | 1996 to 2026 |
| `articles_ar` | **Press index, Arabic**. Articles in Arabic about corruption in Iraq, with links. | 19,383 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `articles_en` | **Press index, English**. Articles in English about corruption in Iraq, with links. | 6,197 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `articles_ku` | **Press index, Kurdish**. Articles in Kurdish about corruption in Iraq, with links. | 300 | 2009 to 2026 |
| `bank_people` | **People linked to banks**. Owners, chairmen, managers and board members of the banks, with the source for each. | 107 |  |
| `bank_sources` | **Sources for the bank register**. The documents behind the bank register, with exact quotes. | 100 | 2012 to 2026 |
| `banks` | **Bank register**. Every bank that could buy dollars at the window: names, type, licence, owners and managers where known, and what regulators have done about it. | 92 |  |
| `case_sources` | **Sources for the cases**. The documents behind each case, with exact quotes and a reliability tier. | 317 | 2004 to 2026 |
| `cases` | **Corruption cases**. Major corruption cases since 2003: what happened, how the money moved, the amounts, who was involved and what happened next. | 98 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `cbi_actions` | **Central Bank actions against named banks and companies**. Dollar bans, guardianship, licence withdrawals and asset freezes, from the CBI's own documents. | 205 | 2012 to 2026 |
| `companies` | **Companies that bought dollars directly**. Money-transfer and exchange companies that bought dollars at the window. | 90 | 2014 to 2019 |
| `coverage_daily` | **Which days the per-bank ledger covers**. For each day the CBI sold dollars: whether we hold its per-bank record and whether the bank rows add up to the CBI's published daily total. | 1,005 | 2012 to 2020 |
| `dfi_audit_findings` | **Audit findings on the Development Fund for Iraq**. What the auditors of the New York account (DFI) reported each year. | 36 | 2005 to 2026 |
| `documents` | **Document library**. Every CBI document we recovered, with its original web address and Internet Archive copy. | 4,352 | 1996 to 2026 |
| `enforcement` | **Enforcement actions**. Sanctions, bans and prosecutions by the US Treasury, FinCEN, the CBI, the UK and courts. | 48 | 2012 to 2026 |
| `fines_annual` | **Central Bank fines, by year**. Fines the CBI imposed on banks and other financial firms. The CBI's tables do not name the firms. | 3 | 2023 to 2025 |
| `fines_monthly` | **Central Bank fines, by month**. The same fines month by month. | 21 | 2023 to 2024 |
| `flows_annual` | **Where the oil money went, by year**. Oil sales, oil paid to oil companies in kind, cash into the New York account, Kuwait compensation, sales to the CBI and state dollar spending. | 23 | 2003 to 2025 |
| `fx_sales_annual` | **Central Bank dollar sales, by year**. Dollars the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) sold each year through its currency window (the "auction"), from its own statistical bulletins. | 24 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `fx_sales_monthly` | **Central Bank dollar sales, by month**. The same sales month by month. | 284 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `headline_figures` | **Headline figures**. The site's main numbers, computed from the other datasets at build time. Pages read their figures from here, never from typed text. | 26 |  |
| `institutions` | **Institutions**. The state bodies and institutions that appear across the site. | 121 |  |
| `krg_oil` | **Kurdistan Region oil sales**. Oil the Kurdistan Region sold outside the federal system, from its own audited reviews. | 68 |  |
| `ledger_annual` | **Dollars bought by each bank, by year**. The per-bank ledger: how many dollars each bank bought from the CBI each year, rebuilt from the CBI's own daily records. Coverage differs by year; see coverage_daily. | 381 | 2012 to 2020 |
| `ledger_coverage_by_year` | **How much of each year the per-bank ledger can name**. For each year: the Central Bank's dollar sales, how much of them we can attribute to a named bank, and what survives of its per-bank records. Added at a reader's request (30 Sep 2026). | 9 | 2012 to 2020 |
| `ledger_daily_2012` | **Dollars bought by each bank, day by day, 2012**. Every per-bank row we hold for 2012, from the CBI's daily records. | 24 | 2012 to 2012 |
| `ledger_daily_2013` | **Dollars bought by each bank, day by day, 2013**. Every per-bank row we hold for 2013, from the CBI's daily records. | 6,532 | 2013 to 2013 |
| `ledger_daily_2014` | **Dollars bought by each bank, day by day, 2014**. Every per-bank row we hold for 2014, from the CBI's daily records. | 4,294 | 2014 to 2014 |
| `ledger_daily_2015` | **Dollars bought by each bank, day by day, 2015**. Every per-bank row we hold for 2015, from the CBI's daily records. | 4,776 | 2015 to 2015 |
| `ledger_daily_2016` | **Dollars bought by each bank, day by day, 2016**. Every per-bank row we hold for 2016, from the CBI's daily records. | 6,887 | 2016 to 2016 |
| `ledger_daily_2017` | **Dollars bought by each bank, day by day, 2017**. Every per-bank row we hold for 2017, from the CBI's daily records. | 4,906 | 2017 to 2017 |
| `ledger_daily_2018` | **Dollars bought by each bank, day by day, 2018**. Every per-bank row we hold for 2018, from the CBI's daily records. | 40 | 2018 to 2018 |
| `ledger_daily_2019` | **Dollars bought by each bank, day by day, 2019**. Every per-bank row we hold for 2019, from the CBI's daily records. | 1,712 | 2019 to 2019 |
| `ledger_daily_2020` | **Dollars bought by each bank, day by day, 2020**. Every per-bank row we hold for 2020, from the CBI's daily records. | 34 | 2020 to 2020 |
| `manifest` | **List of data files**. The files in this download set and when they were built. | 3 |  |
| `margin_annual` | **The price gap, by year**. The value of the gap between the market price of a dollar and the Central Bank's price, times the dollars it sold. It went to whoever received the dollars; it is not a finding that any bank or person made that money. | 24 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `margin_monthly` | **The price gap, by month**. The same calculation month by month, with the market price and the price paid for each month. | 275 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `market_rate_monthly` | **Dollar price in the market, by month**. The price of a dollar in Iraqi dinars on the open market, next to the Central Bank's own price. | 267 | 2003 to 2025 |
| `mirror_trade_gap` | **Iraq's imports as reported by its trading partners**. Imports Iraq paid for compared with the exports its partners recorded, a check on over-invoicing. | 22 | 2004 to 2025 |
| `oil_exports_monthly` | **Oil exports, by month**. Barrels exported and money earned each month, from official sources. | 272 | 2004 to 2026 |
| `oil_theft_cases` | **Oil theft cases**. Documented cases of oil theft and smuggling. | 14 |  |
| `oil_theft_estimates` | **Estimates of oil stolen before export**. Published estimates of oil lost to theft and smuggling, with their sources. | 82 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `people` | **People and entities in the cases**. People, companies and banks named in the cases, each with a documented status (see the glossary). | 206 |  |
| `people_section` | **People named in the record**. Every person, company and bank named in the cases and the bank register, with a documented status for each. Each record gives one documented legal status. People with no charge, conviction, sanction or official finding are shown as "Not charged as of the date of writing" and are listed separately. An accusation is recorded as an accusation, with who made it. | 290 |  |
| `purchases_from_mof_annual` | **Dollars the Central Bank bought from the Finance Ministry, by year**. The oil dollars the Finance Ministry sold to the CBI for dinars, which the CBI then sold on at its window. | 24 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `refusals` | **Requests the Central Bank refused, 2013 to 2015**. The amounts banks asked for and the amounts the CBI's committee refused, with the written reasons, from its daily minutes. | 4,820 | 2013 to 2015 |
| `register_bank_owners` | **Register: owners and managers of the banks in the dollar auction**. Chairmen, managers, board members and shareholders of the banks that bought dollars at the Central Bank's window, with the source for each. Being listed records a role, not an allegation; each row gives the exact legal status. | 616 |  |
| `register_housing_licences` | **Register: housing investment licences**. Housing investment licences granted by the national and provincial investment commissions: who received them, where, and what official bodies later found. Being listed is not an allegation. | 165 | 2009 to 2026 |
| `register_industry` | **Register: Ministry of Industry projects and contracts**. Industrial cities, land allocations and partnership contracts for state factories, from official statements and audit reports. Being listed records a project, not an allegation. | 72 | 2008 to 2026 |
| `register_industry_officials` | **Register: ministers and directors-general of the Ministry of Industry**. Ministers of Industry and Minerals and heads of its directorates and state companies since 2003, each with an exact legal status. Being listed records a public office, not an allegation. | 41 |  |
| `register_investment_licences` | **Register: investment licences**. Every licence in the lists of licensed projects of the National Investment Commission and the provincial investment commissions: sector, licence number and date, project, licensee, cost, location, who owns the land, and what became of the licence, with what public sources say about each licensee. Being listed records a licence, not an allegation; each licensee carries its exact documented status. | 768 | 2009 to 2020 |
| `register_office_holders` | **Register: cabinet-level office holders since 2003**. Everyone who held cabinet-level office from the Governing Council (2003) to the al-Zaidi government (2026), plus Central Bank governors and the heads of the Integrity Commission and the Board of Supreme Audit, with dates and sources. Being listed records a public role, not an allegation; each row gives the exact legal status. | 432 |  |
| `register_sanctions` | **Register: sanctions designations concerning Iraq**. US Treasury, State Department and FinCEN designations of Iraqi persons, armed groups and others designated for conduct in Iraq, with the authority's own stated reason. A designation is an official act, not a court conviction. | 374 | 2003 to 2026 |
| `register_supreme_committee` | **Register: decisions of the Supreme Committee for Reconstruction and Investment**. Every decision of the committee found in official statements from 2023 to 2026: the project, the land, the beneficiary where one is named, the terms and what happened afterwards. The committee published no register, so the list may be incomplete. | 80 | 2023 to 2026 |
| `register_supreme_committee_members` | **Register: chair and members of the Supreme Committee**. The chair of the committee and its members by post, each with an exact legal status. Being listed records a public office, not an allegation. | 6 |  |
| `reserves_annual` | **Central Bank foreign reserves, by year**. The CBI's foreign-currency reserves at year end. | 25 |  |
| `rules_timeline` | **How the dollar-sale rules changed**. A timeline of the CBI documents that changed who could buy dollars and on what terms. | 86 | 2010 to 2024 |
| `state_assets_findings` | **State land and licences: rulings, audit findings and accusations**. Court rulings, audit findings, investigations, accusations and government decisions about investment licences, state land and state factories. The column "kind" says which each row is. A court ruling is not the same as an accusation. | 86 | 2013 to 2026 |
| `state_assets_officials` | **State land and licences: who ran the licensing bodies**. Prime ministers, chairmen of the National Investment Commission and ministers who ran the bodies that grant licences and allocate state land. Being listed records a public office, not an allegation. | 26 |  |
| `state_assets_scale` | **State land and licences: figures and rules**. Counts, areas and sums stated by official bodies, and the rules that govern licences and state land. What the commissions announce is licensed value, not money spent. | 79 |  |
| `timeline` | **Timeline, 2003-2026**. Dated events from the other datasets: when each case began, sanctions and bans, Central Bank rules and circulars, and changes in people's legal status. Each event links to its record. | 362 | 2003 to 2026 |