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IRAQ'S CORRUPTION
العربية
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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  1. The "$6.6bn missing" question: DFI funds at CPA dissolution and DoD's undocumented spending (SIGIR from 2010 to 2012)
    From June 2004 to January 2012Reconstruction and donor fundsAudit finding
    $8.7 billionTier A
    1 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
  2. "Brick Tracker": reported $1.2 to 1.6bn of airlifted Iraqi cash hidden in a Lebanese bunker (Risen/NYT, October 2014)
    From 2004 to October 2014Reconstruction and donor fundsMedia investigation
    $1.2 billionTier D
    2 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
  3. CPA South-Central (al-Hillah) bid-rigging, bribery and theft ring (Bloom-Stein case)
    From December 2003 to December 2005Reconstruction and donor fundsCriminal prosecution
    $8.6 millionTier A
    5 named · 4 convicted or reported convicted
  4. CPA disbursed about $8.8bn of Iraqi DFI funds to ministries without adequate controls (SIGIR 05-004)
    From October 2003 to June 2004Reconstruction and donor fundsAudit finding
    $8.8 billionTier A
    2 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
  5. KBR "Restore Iraqi Oil" fuel imports from Kuwait: DCAA-questioned costs and subcontractor kickbacks (from 2003 to 2005)
    From May 2003 to 2005Reconstruction and donor fundsAudit finding
    $205.2 millionTier A
    3 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
  6. Airlift of nearly $12bn in cash (Iraqi funds) from the New York Fed to Baghdad, from May 2003 to June 2004
    From May 2003 to June 2004Reconstruction and donor fundsParliamentary inquiry
    $12 billionTier A
    1 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted
  7. US reconstruction programme in Iraq: official waste or fraud estimates and prosecution totals (SIGIR 2013; Commission on Wartime Contracting 2011)
    From 2003 to 2013Reconstruction and donor fundsOfficial statement or estimate
    $60 billionTier A
    No one named
  8. Custer Battles LLC: False Claims Act liability over CPA currency-exchange contract (from 2003 to 2011)
    From 2003 to September 2011Reconstruction and donor fundsCivil case or arbitration
    $3 millionTier A
    4 named · 0 convicted or reported convicted