Diyala electricity distribution: 1,463 fictitious payment transactions, missing materials and bribery cases (from 2022 to 2026)

The Integrity Commission's Diyala office has reported a series of cases at the province's electricity distribution directorate. In June 2022 it arrested 11 members of purchasing and small-project committees over fictitious receipts and inflated prices. In November 2022 it arrested the director of the Hibhib maintenance centre, who it said had handed lighting fittings to the offices of several members of Parliament and influential people, and found four fictitious store vouchers. In December 2022 it found 21 fictitious transactions worth IQD 413 million. In May 2023 it seized 1,463 fictitious payment transactions processed in 2021, worth more than IQD 17 billion, for purchases, projects and works that existed only on paper. In March 2024 ten managers, engineers and technicians in Bahraz and Abu Khamis were held for taking money from a contractor on a high-voltage line. In January 2026 an employee assigned to the electricity minister's office was caught taking USD 135,000 from another employee for a promised post. In June and July 2026 eight officials and employees were held over materials worth IQD 1.74 billion and IQD 2 billion missing from the stores.