Central Electricity Distribution Company: seven-year illicit-enrichment sentence for a former director general and a three-year sentence for its finance director (2026)

Iraq's Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court sentenced Alaa Samir Rashid Shukr al-Jubouri, former director general of the state-owned General Company for Electricity Distribution, Middle Region, to seven years in prison for illicit enrichment, in a verdict reported by OCCRP on 18 September 2026 and dated by Alsumaria TV to 14 September 2026. The court found he held unexplained wealth of about IQD 5.5bn plus roughly $5.5m that he could not legitimately account for, under Iraq's Illicit Enrichment Law No. 30 of 2011 (as amended); he was ordered to repay the amount plus a matching fine, and his assets were frozen. The case followed an internal Ministry of Electricity audit that found 127 allegedly fraudulent procurement transactions worth about $4.5m at the company between 2022 and 2025. Weeks earlier, on 28 August 2026, the same court sentenced the company's director of financial affairs to three years for a related illicit-enrichment offence involving about IQD 1.17bn plus $203,000, with matching restitution, a fine, and seizure of property shares and vehicles.