Raad al-Haris: former deputy electricity minister and PM adviser convicted of bribery (2022)

Raad al-Haris, who had served roughly a decade as deputy electricity minister and, at the time of his arrest, as an adviser to Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi overseeing power-plant projects, was arrested on 4 November 2020 following a complaint from Iraq's anti-corruption investigation committee (Committee 29). Reporting described it as the first arrest of a sitting PM's adviser under Kadhimi. On 5 January 2022 a Baghdad court convicted him of receiving bribes and unlawfully awarding contracts and sentenced him to six years in prison plus a 10-million-dinar fine, with reporting describing bribes exchanged for assigning ministry projects to affiliated sub-companies.