Data downloads

What the auditors of the New York account (DFI) reported each year.

Oil sales, oil paid to oil companies in kind, cash into the New York account, Kuwait compensation, sales to the CBI and state dollar spending.

Dollars the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) sold each year through its currency window (the "auction"), from its own statistical bulletins.

The same sales month by month.

Oil the Kurdistan Region sold outside the federal system, from its own audited reviews.

The price of a dollar in Iraqi dinars on the open market, next to the Central Bank's own price.

Imports Iraq paid for compared with the exports its partners recorded, a check on over-invoicing.

Barrels exported and money earned each month, from official sources.

Documented cases concerning Iraqi oil: guilty pleas in bribery cases over oil contracts, the diversion and smuggling of crude oil and fuel, sanctions designations, court rulings and audit findings. Each case gives its sources and the exact legal status of the people named.

Published estimates of the oil that was lost or not accounted for before export, some of which their sources attribute to theft and smuggling, with their sources.

The oil dollars the Finance Ministry sold to the CBI for dinars, which the CBI then sold on at its window.

The CBI's foreign-currency reserves at year end.

Court rulings, audit findings, investigations, accusations and government decisions about investment licences, state land and state factories. The column "kind" says which each row is. A court ruling is not the same as an accusation.

Prime ministers, chairmen of the National Investment Commission and ministers who ran the bodies that grant licences and allocate state land. Being listed records a public office, not an allegation.

Counts, areas and sums stated by official bodies, and the rules that govern licences and state land. What the commissions announce is licensed value, not money spent.

Money-transfer and exchange companies that bought dollars at the window.

For each day the CBI sold dollars: whether we hold its per-bank record and whether the bank rows add up to the CBI's published daily total.

The per-bank ledger: how many dollars each bank bought from the CBI each year, rebuilt from the CBI's own daily records. Coverage differs by year; see coverage_daily.

For each year: the Central Bank's dollar sales, how much of them we can attribute to a named bank, and what survives of its per-bank records.

The value of the gap between the market price of a dollar and the Central Bank's price, times the dollars it sold. It went to whoever received the dollars; it is not a finding that any bank or person made that money.

The same calculation month by month, with the market price and the price paid for each month.

The amounts banks asked for and the amounts the CBI's committee refused, with the written reasons, from its daily minutes.

Every per-bank row we hold from the Central Bank's daily records, in one file per year. 9 years, 29,205 rows in all.

• 2012CSV, 7 KBExcel, 11 KB24 rows
• 2013CSV, 2.8 MBExcel, 786 KB6,532 rows
• 2014CSV, 1.2 MBExcel, 499 KB4,294 rows
• 2015CSV, 1.2 MBExcel, 423 KB4,776 rows
• 2016CSV, 2.1 MBExcel, 624 KB6,887 rows
• 2017CSV, 1.3 MBExcel, 448 KB4,906 rows
• 2018CSV, 11 KBExcel, 13 KB40 rows
• 2019CSV, 574 KBExcel, 181 KB1,712 rows
• 2020CSV, 12 KBExcel, 12 KB34 rows

Owners, chairmen, managers and board members of the banks, with the source for each.

The documents behind the bank register, with exact quotes.

Every bank that could buy dollars at the window: names, type, licence, owners and managers where known, and what regulators have done about it.

People, companies and banks named in the cases, each with a documented status (see the glossary).

Every person, company and bank named in the cases and the bank register, with a documented status for each. Only documented statuses (convicted, sanctioned, charged, accused by an official body and so on) put a name in the list of documented legal actions; people with no charge, conviction, sanction or official finding are shown as "Not charged as of the date of writing" and are listed separately.

Chairmen, managers, board members and shareholders of the banks that bought dollars at the Central Bank's window, with the source for each. Being listed records a role, not an allegation; each row gives the exact legal status.

Housing investment licences granted by the national and provincial investment commissions: who received them, where, and what official bodies later found. Being listed is not an allegation.

Industrial cities, land allocations and partnership contracts for state factories, from official statements and audit reports. Being listed records a project, not an allegation.

Ministers of Industry and Minerals and heads of its directorates and state companies since 2003, each with an exact legal status. Being listed records a public office, not an allegation.

Every licence in the lists of licensed projects of the National Investment Commission and the provincial investment commissions: sector, licence number and date, project, licensee, cost, location, who owns the land, and what became of the licence, with what public sources say about each licensee. Being listed records a licence, not an allegation; each licensee carries its exact documented status.

Everyone who held cabinet-level office from the Governing Council (2003) to the al-Zaidi government (2026), plus Central Bank governors and the heads of the Integrity Commission and the Board of Supreme Audit, with dates and sources. Being listed records a public role, not an allegation; each row gives the exact legal status.

US Treasury and State Department sanctions designations of Iraqi persons, armed groups and others, and FinCEN Section 311 measures, each with the authority's own stated reason. A designation is an official act, not a court conviction. A Section 311 measure is not a sanctions designation.

Every decision of the committee found in official statements from 2023 to 2026: the project, the land, the beneficiary where one is named, the terms and what happened afterwards. The committee published no register, so the list may be incomplete.

The chair of the committee and its members by post, each with an exact legal status. Being listed records a public office, not an allegation.

Every figure carries the exact words of its source.

Every figure carries the exact words of its source.

Every figure carries the exact words of its source.

Every figure carries the exact words of its source.

Every figure carries the exact words of its source.

Every figure carries the exact words of its source.

Every figure carries the exact words of its source.

Every figure carries the exact words of its source.

The CBI's anti-money-laundering instructions and notices.

The documents behind each case, with exact quotes and a reliability tier.

Major corruption cases since 2003: what happened, how the money moved, the amounts, who was involved and what happened next.

Dollar bans, guardianship, licence withdrawals and asset freezes, from the CBI's own documents.

Sanctions, bans and prosecutions by the US Treasury, FinCEN, the CBI, the UK and courts.

Fines the CBI imposed on banks and other financial firms. The CBI's tables do not name the firms.

The same fines month by month.

The state bodies and institutions that appear across the site.

A timeline of the CBI documents that changed who could buy dollars and on what terms.

Dated events from the other datasets: when each case began, sanctions and bans, Central Bank rules and circulars, and changes in people's legal status. Each event links to its record.

Articles in Arabic about corruption in Iraq, with links.

Articles in English about corruption in Iraq, with links.

Articles in Kurdish about corruption in Iraq, with links.

Central Bank documents recovered from its website through the Internet Archive or kept in the site's own files, each with its original web address and Internet Archive copy. The document library on this site is larger: it also holds the news pages of the Central Bank's website and documents from other sources.

The site's main numbers, computed from the other datasets at build time. Pages read their figures from here, never from typed text.

The files in this download set and when they were built.