Cases
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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- PMF "ghost fighters": payroll-inflation allegations and the unsolved killing of the force's finance chiefFrom 2018 to May 2023Public payrollMedia investigationNo dollar figure2 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
- Qi Card / International Smart Card: IQD 231bn of duplicated pension payments for retirees abroad recovered (from 2017 to 2022)From 2017 to August 2022Public payrollCriminal prosecution$158 millionTier D1 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
- Ghost employees, double salaries and pension fraud in the public payroll (from 2015 to 2021)From 2015 to 2021Public payrollOfficial statement or estimateNo dollar figure1 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
- "Ghost soldiers": 50,000 fictitious names on the army payroll (Abadi, November 2014)From 2014 to November 2014Public payrollOfficial statement or estimateNo dollar figure1 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted