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Corruption cases in Iraq since 2003

This section holds 98 documented cases. They run from 2003 to 2026. They cover banks and the dollar sale, oil and electricity, customs and ports, defence, local government, religious endowments and the Kurdistan Region.

Each case names the people and institutions involved, with their exact legal status on the date shown: convicted, convicted in their absence, charged, accused, under sanctions, acquitted or pardoned. No one is called a criminal unless a court has convicted them.

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  1. Ammar Jabr Khalil Abd al-Hamid: former Salah al-Din governor convicted in absentia of illicit enrichment (2026)
    August 2026Local government and reconstructionCriminal prosecution
    $1.3 millionTier D
    1 named · 1 convicted or reported convicted
  2. Basra Governor Asaad al-Eidani: parliamentary probe into land allocation and financial mismanagement (from 2024 to 2025)
    From February 2024 to November 2025Local government and reconstructionParliamentary inquiry
    No dollar figure
    2 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
  3. Kirkuk governor Rakan al-Jubouri: warrants, a travel ban, and a 2025 arrest and bail (from 2018 to 2025)
    From December 2018 to April 2025Local government and reconstructionArrest warrants, travel ban, arrest and bail (investigation stage)
    No dollar figure
    1 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
  4. Former Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi: arrest warrants and sentences in absentia (from 2018 to 2022)
    From March 2018 to April 2022Local government and reconstructionCourt rulings in absentia and arrest warrants
    No dollar figure
    1 named · 1 convicted or reported convicted
  5. August 2017: arrest warrants and a conviction topple the governors of Salah al-Din, Basra and Anbar
    August 2017Local government and reconstructionCriminal prosecution
    No dollar figure
    3 named · 1 convicted or reported convicted
  6. Nineveh governor Nawfal al-Akoub: reconstruction and displaced-persons funds (from 2017 to 2019)
    From 2017 to July 2021Local government and reconstructionCriminal prosecution
    $64 millionTier D
    1 named · 1 convicted or reported convicted
  7. Alleged kickback demands in UNDP's Funding Facility for Stabilization reconstruction projects (reported January 2024)
    From 2015 to January 2024Local government and reconstructionMedia investigation
    $1.5 billionTier D
    No one named
  8. Funds for displaced persons: the Higher Committee for Relief and Sheltering of the Displaced (from 2014 to 2023)
    From 2014 to September 2023Local government and reconstructionCriminal prosecution
    No dollar figure
    1 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
  9. Parliamentary Integrity Committee finding: 4,600 fictitious ('ghost') projects under the Maliki government (announced January 2015)
    From 2006 to January 2015Local government and reconstructionParliamentary inquiry
    No dollar figure
    2 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted