Parliamentary Integrity Committee finding: 4,600 fictitious ('ghost') projects under the Maliki government (announced January 2015)

In early January 2015 the Iraqi parliament's Integrity Committee disclosed that it had identified about 4,600 fictitious ('ghost') projects dating to Nouri al-Maliki's government (from 2006 to 2014), for which committee member Ribwar Taha said 'billions of dollars were spent ... yet nothing was actually implemented'; he said those responsible required backing from government or provincial officials to operate unchecked, and that the committee would pursue them through the courts. Later that month committee head Talal Khudair al-Zubaie said the committee had separately received information on large numbers of phantom projects specifically in Baghdad, and would form a specialised sub-committee and field-inspection teams, including technical and engineering experts, to investigate stalled developments and refer negligent parties to the courts. No monetary total, list of named projects, or later prosecutorial outcome is on record.