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The Ministry of Industry: licences, land and state factories

The Ministry of Industry and Minerals is a third window through which state land and assets pass to private firms. It grants licences for industrial projects and letters that allocate land. It licenses the developers of industrial cities. Its state companies sign partnership and rehabilitation contracts for state factories. This register holds 72 projects and contracts found in official statements and audit reports, and 41 officials who headed the ministry, its directorates or its companies, each with an exact legal status.

All registers

Who decides

Who decides
DecisionBody that decidesLegal basis
Licence to set up a private or mixed industrial projectGeneral Directorate for Industrial Development, within 15 daysLaw 20 of 1998, Articles 3 and 6
State land for a licensed projectThe state bodies concerned allocate the land and lease it at a fair rent. In practice the Directorate issues the allocation letter and the State Real Estate Directorate signs the lease.Law 20 of 1998, Article 9
Exemption from taxes and fees for ten years, except income taxFollows from the licence. The Cabinet may add an exemption for a strategic project, case by case.Law 20 of 1998, Article 8
Licence to build, develop or run an industrial cityIndustrial Cities Authority, under a board chaired by the minister. No answer within 30 days counts as approval.Law 2 of 2019, Articles 4, 6 and 9
Partnership, rehabilitation and investment contracts for state factoriesThe board of the state company decides and the ministry approves. Strategic cases go to the Cabinet.Public Companies Law 22 of 1997, Articles 15 and 26
Source: Industrial Investment Law for the Private and Mixed Sectors No. 20 of 1998, Industrial Cities Law No. 2 of 2019 and Public Companies Law No. 22 of 1997.Tier A

In figures

Counts of licences and contracts, and areas, as given in the ministry's statements and in reports of the Board of Supreme Audit.
Figures on the Ministry of Industry
PeriodWhat the figure measuresFigureSource
2016Investment and partnership contracts of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals (acting minister's request to the Integrity Commission, 25 Oct 2016)170
contracts
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2019Investment projects and contracts signed by the Ministry in 201936
contracts
alsumaria.tv
2026State companies and plants under the Ministry (published 2026 data, as cited by Al-Rawabet Center)312
plants (31 companies; 225 working; 87 stopped)
shafaq.com
2026Partnership contracts with the private sector announced by the Ministry (as cited by Al-Rawabet Center)144
contracts in implementation (about 90 more under evaluation; 234 in all)
shafaq.com
2024-Q1Preliminary (establishment) licences for new industrial projects, first quarter219
licences
iraq-businessnews.com
2025Establishment licences for new industrial projects granted by the General Directorate for Industrial Development1,867
licences
iraq-businessnews.com
2025Land-allocation letters for industrial projects856
letters
iraq-businessnews.com
2025-04Preliminary licences, April 2025165
licences
iraq-businessnews.com
2025-05Preliminary licences, May 2025172
licences
iraq-businessnews.com
2025-09Preliminary licences, September 2025180
licences
iraq-businessnews.com
2025-11Licences for new industrial projects, November 2025158
licences
iraq-businessnews.com
2026-02Establishment licences for new industrial projects, February 2026230
licences
iraq-businessnews.com
2026-03Preliminary licences, March 2026124
licences
iraq-businessnews.com
2026Dhi Qar Industrial City (Industrial Cities Authority): area2,000
dunums
iraq-businessnews.com
2025-03Green Mountain Industrial City, Basra (General Company for Iron and Steel with China's Tsingshan): area and contract value2,000
dunums (contract value USD 2 billion, signed Mar 2025)
iraq-businessnews.com
2025-09Industrial cities approved by the Authority's board: Babylon pharmaceutical city 708, Babylon Gateway 2,000, Akkad (Rashidiya, Baghdad) 1252,833
dunums in three cities
iraq-businessnews.com
2025-04Rent in industrial-city plots (Ministerial Council for the Economy decision)250,000
IQD a month per half-dunum plot, years 3 to 5
iraq-businessnews.com
2020-06Integrity Commission proposal: rent for industrial land, assessed every 10 years3
percent of land value (ceiling)
alsumaria.tv
2023FBSA: brick plants and gas offices operating on state land with expired leases, Maysan43
sites (41 brick plants and 2 gas offices)
storage.fbsa.gov.iq[1][2]
2024FBSA: brick and asphalt plants whose leases expired 8 to 12 years earlier, Babil12
years (longest lapse)
storage.fbsa.gov.iq[1][2]
2019 to 2025FBSA: Al-Nawra lime plant (Karbala), investor's share of rehabilitation done45
percent (line 1 at 7.6; line 2 at 82)
storage.fbsa.gov.iq[1][2]
2023FBSA: plant stores sold to the Al-Nawra investor and booked as its debt, end-20233,309,649,219
IQD
storage.fbsa.gov.iq
2023FBSA: salaries paid by the Fallujah White Cement plant instead of the investor, 13 Jan to 31 Aug 20234,562,085,000
IQD
storage.fbsa.gov.iq
2024FBSA: copper scrap received by the Ur partnership project (about 40 percent of output needed)64,075
tonnes
storage.fbsa.gov.iq
2024FBSA: scrap used and unpaid by the Nour Sawi partner, State Company for Steel Industries27,879
tonnes (IQD 5,914,232 thousand)
storage.fbsa.gov.iq[1][2]
2024FBSA: spent from the IQD 48,660 million rehabilitation allocation for the former Nasr plants before contract 5 of 5 Sep 202421,710,112,000
IQD
storage.fbsa.gov.iq
2025FBSA: Industrial Cities Authority contract 4 of 2021 with Al-Yusra, change by addendum 2 (21 Apr 2025)6
years of implementation (from 3); development period 45 years (from 40)
storage.fbsa.gov.iq
2024FBSA: Mosul dairy plant: first-instance compensation awarded against the investor (9 Dec 2024), under appeal25,379,000,000
IQD
storage.fbsa.gov.iq
2023Integrity Commission: loss on cement sold at IQD 60,000 a tonne against the official IQD 65,000 (first batch of 1,300,000 tonnes)6,500,000,000
IQD (more than)
alsumaria.tv

Projects and contracts

72 records: industrial cities, land allocations, and partnership and rehabilitation contracts. The ministry publishes no register of its licences or of its contracts. These records were gathered from its statements, from reports of the Board of Supreme Audit and from the press.

Records that match: 72.

  1. 14 September 2026Partnership and rehabilitation contracts

    Government fertiliser production line at Khor al-Zubair

    Investor or partner
    Not named in the reports read.
    State company
    State Company for Southern Fertilizers, Basra (Khor al-Zubair)
    Terms
    Plan to turn the government line into an investment opportunity. A staff representative said investment leaves the state 20 percent of output and gives most of the return to the investor.
    Course of the project
    Staff protested on 14 Sep 2026 and again on 23 Sep 2026 and stopped work. They asked for the plant to be started, for the directors-general to be removed after an ammonia leak, and for the line not to be signed over.
    Official findings
    None found. The figure of 20 percent is the protesters' statement.
    Wording of the source
    «وقفتنا الاحتجاجية ضد تحويل الخط الحكومي إلى استثماري، خصوصاً أن الاستثمار يتيح للدولة 20% فقط من الإنتاج بينما أغلب الريع يذهب للمستثمر» [shafaq.com] … … «رفضهم القاطع لقرار تحويل خطوط الإنتاج إلى الاستثمار» [964media.com]
    Sources
    shafaq.com964media.com
  2. 3 September 2026Partnership and rehabilitation contracts

    Company headquarters and plant site in Karrada, Baghdad (leather industries)

    Investor or partner
    No buyer or investor named yet
    State company
    State Company for Textile and Leather Industries
    Terms
    The ministry announced that it would offer the site for sale or investment and move to other sites.
    Course of the project
    On 3 Sep 2026 a member of Parliament's Legal Committee, Mohammed al-Khafaji, wrote to minister Mohammed Nuri and asked for the reasons and the economic case. The letter says moving the plant would cost large sums and that there is no guarantee on the use of the proceeds.
    Official findings
    No finding. A parliamentary question. The letter says the decision looks like part of a pattern of giving up the ministry's land and assets, as happened with the partnership contracts. The minister: not charged as of the date of writing.
    Wording of the source
    «تساؤلا الى وزير الصناعة والمعادن محمد نوري، حول قراره طرح مقر الشركة العامة للجلود في منطقة الكرادة للبيع او الاستثمار» [baghdadtoday.news] … … «جزء من توجه يمثل سياق خطير في وزارة الصناعة والمعادن للتفريط بأراضيها واصولها كما حدث مع عقود المشاركة المبرمة» [baghdadtoday.news]
    Sources
    baghdadtoday.news
  3. 1 July 2026Partnership and rehabilitation contracts

    Production line for asthma inhalers at the Baghdad plant for medicines, appliances and medical gases

    Investor or partner
    Private partner not named
    State company
    State Company for Drugs and Medical Appliances, Samarra
    Terms
    Partnership contract with the private sector. Capacity 9 million units a year and nine products.
    Course of the project
    Two products were completed and were being registered with the Ministry of Health in July 2026, according to the director-general, Mohammed Abdul Qader al-Naimi.
    Official findings
    None found in the sources read.
    Wording of the source
    «تشغيل خط إنتاج البخاخات الفموية (بخاخات الربو) في مصنع بغداد لإنتاج الأدوية والمستلزمات والغازات الطبية، ضمن عقد شراكة مع القطاع الخاص» [964media.com]
    Sources
    964media.comiraq-businessnews.com
  4. 10 June 2026Dhi QarLicences, industrial cities and land

    Dhi Qar Industrial City (Ur sub-district, Nasiriyah): lease of serviced and unserviced industrial plots

    Investor or partner
    Industrialists not named. Projects listed by the Authority: an industrial oil recycling plant, an industrial gases plant, tyre and paper waste recycling plants, food and pharmaceutical plants.
    Land
    2,000 dunums, district 48 Sakhriya East (plots 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 21, 24, 47, 50, 51, 59 and abandoned plot 188); phase one 200 dunums with 105 serviced plots of 1,250 m2. 278 plots leased in all, serviced and unserviced (Authority, Jun 2026).
    Value
    750,000 IQD a month per 1,250 m2 plot (rent in the Authority's investment opportunity file)
    Course of the project
    The opportunity file put the cost of completing development at IQD 21,350,000,000. Industrialists get a two-year rent exemption. In Apr 2025 the Ministerial Council for the Economy set a fixed rent of IQD 250,000 a month per half-dunum plot for years three to five. The opportunity file, which carries no date, gives IQD 750,000 a month per 1,250 m2 plot. No list of lessees was published.
    Official findings
    See IND-010 for the Integrity Commission finding on the city's fence and facilities contracts.
    Wording of the source
    all serviced plots have been leased to industrialists in accordance with applicable regulations
    Sources
    iraq-businessnews.comcities.industry.gov.iq
  5. 1 June 2026Partnership and rehabilitation contracts

    Refined sulphur project at the Al-Lazzaka 2 field

    Investor or partner
    A private Iraqi company, not named in the company statement
    State company
    Mishraq Sulphur State Company, Nineveh
    Terms
    Partnership agreement after the project was offered as an investment opportunity. Initial capacity 1 million tonnes a year. The date is the date of the report.
    Course of the project
    Announced by the director-general, Ahmed Abdullah Rowdhan. Nothing further found.
    Official findings
    None found in the sources read.
    Wording of the source
    «has signed a partnership agreement with a private Iraqi company to develop an integrated industrial project for refined sulphur production» [iraq-businessnews.com] … … «The company statement did not give the name of the private Iraqi company involved.» [iraq-businessnews.com]
    Sources
    iraq-businessnews.com
  6. 24 May 2026BasraLicences, industrial cities and land

    Basra Economic City, an industrial city in Khor al-Zubair (investment licence for 40 years)

    Investor or partner
    Not named; 964 describes the developer as a company specialised in iron, steel and industrial investment. Whether this is the Tsingshan project is not stated.
    Land
    904 dunums in the investment licence, on land owned by the Ministry of Finance; farmers say clearance reached about 1,371 dunums
    Value
    100,000,000 (more than) USD
    Course of the project
    The Zubair district head, Abbas Maher, said Khor al-Zubair was set aside for an integrated industrial project; work on it began in 2007, but the actual start was delayed to Sep 2025, after a developer was contracted. Farmers said more than 40 farms with palm and sidr trees were bulldozed and power lines cut; 20 protesters were arrested on charges that included attempted murder… Read the rest and extortion of the investor and were released on bail after a month (farmers' account). On 14 Jun 2026 farmers in Khwesat said they had still received no compensation.
    Official findings
    No official finding. The district head said every holder of a formal agricultural contract would be compensated by the investors. The claim that clearance exceeded the licensed area is the farmers' account (tier D). Licensee status: not named.
    Wording of the source
    وأعمال التجريف تجاوزت حدود المساحة المثبتة في إجازة الاستثمار البالغة (904) دونمات، لتصل إلى نحو 1371 دونماً
    Sources
    964media.com[1][2]
  7. 21 February 2026Partnership and rehabilitation contracts

    Integrated project for specialised rubber products (three lines, including conveyor belts)

    Investor or partner
    Private partner not named
    State company
    State Company for Rubber Industries and Tires
    Terms
    Partnership contract with the private sector, announced by the director-general, Haider Nasser Dhaher. Shares and duration not published. The date is the date of the report.
    Course of the project
    Not found in the sources read.
    Official findings
    None found in the sources read.
    Wording of the source
    «has signed a partnership contract with the private sector to establish an integrated industrial project for specialised rubber products.» [iraq-businessnews.com]
    Sources
    iraq-businessnews.com
  8. 15 February 2026Partnership and rehabilitation contracts

    Vehicle assembly, production and marketing system (buses, pickups, saloon cars, trucks and special equipment)

    Investor or partner
    Iraqi and Emirati companies, not named. Kia Motor (South Korea) for the assembly of Kia 2700 pickups
    State company
    State Company for Automotive and Equipment Industry, Iskandariya (Babil)
    Terms
    Partnership contract announced on 15 Feb 2026 by the director-general, Dana Saadallah Saeed. Shares and duration not published. Early in February 2026 the company said it had assembled 360 Kia 2700 pickups, the first batch of 1,000, in partnership with Kia Motor.
    Course of the project
    Not found in the sources read.
    Official findings
    A separate matter: on 12 Apr 2023 the Integrity Commission said the Hilla integrity investigation court had summoned a former director-general of the company under Penal Code Article 340 for ordering the payment of IQD 219 million to a private company although it had presented forged guarantees. Status: under investigation (not named). Outcome not found.
    Wording of the source
    «أنها وقعت عقد شراكة مع شركات عراقية وإمارتية لإنشاء منظومة صناعية متكاملة لتجميع وإنتاج وتسويق مختلف أنواع المركبات» [shafaq.com] … … «المتهم أقدم على الإيعاز وصرف مبلغ (٢١٩) مليون دينار من أموال الشركة التي يعمل فيها إلى إحدى الشركات الأهليَّة، على الرغم من تقديم الأخيرة كفالات مزورة» [alsumaria.tv]
    Sources
    shafaq.comiraq-businessnews.comalsumaria.tv
  9. 12 February 2026Partnership and rehabilitation contracts

    Imam Ali al-Hadi vegetable oil plant, Maysan

    Investor or partner
    A Bulgarian company, not named
    State company
    State Company for Food Products
    Terms
    Partnership contract under which the plant produces cooking oil of the Al-Bint brand. Terms not published. The date is the date of the report.
    Course of the project
    The first export shipment of cooking oil went to Jordan in February 2026.
    Official findings
    None found in the sources read.
    Wording of the source
    «produced at the Imam Ali Al-Hadi plant in Maysan province, has been exported to Jordan under a partnership contract with a Bulgarian company.» [iraq-businessnews.com]
    Sources
    iraq-businessnews.com
  10. 27 January 2026Not statedLicences, industrial cities and land

    Licence to establish a motorcycle and electric motorcycle factory, granted by the General Directorate for Industrial Development on a Cabinet decision

    Investor or partner
    Babel Al-Dhahabiya (Babel Golden) Company for General Trading and the Trading and Manufacturing of Cars and Motorcycles
    شركة بابل الذهبية للتجارة العامة وتجارة وتصنيع السيارات والدراجات
    Land
    Not stated
    Course of the project
    No later report on the factory was found.
    Official findings
    Cabinet decision of 27 Jan 2026 (executive). Status: not charged as of the date of writing (as of 27 January 2026).
    Wording of the source
    أقرّ مجلس الوزراء قيام المديرية العامة للتنمية الصناعية، بمنح إجازة إنشاء مصنع لصناعة الدراجات النارية والكهربائية إلى شركة بابل الذهبية للتجارة العامة وتجارة وتصنيع السيارات والدراجات
    Sources
    964media.com[1][2]iraq-businessnews.com
  11. 7 January 2026Partnership and rehabilitation contracts

    Chlorine and caustic soda plant at the Basra Paper Mill complex

    Investor or partner
    Noor al-Hilal
    State company
    State Company for Petrochemical Industries, Basra
    Terms
    Partnership described by the company as national. Design capacity 50 tonnes a day of caustic soda and 44 tonnes a day of chlorine, with sodium hypochlorite and hydrochloric acid. About 140 jobs. Shares and duration not published. The date is the date of the report.
    Course of the project
    Not found in the sources read.
    Official findings
    None found in the sources read.
    Wording of the source
    «has announced the signing of a national partnership with Noor al-Hilal to establish a new plant for the production of chlorine and caustic soda in Basra.» [iraq-businessnews.com]
    Sources
    iraq-businessnews.com
  12. 31 December 2025Baghdad (head offices)Licences, industrial cities and land

    Accounts and contract control of the General Directorate for Industrial Development and the Industrial Cities Authority (FBSA annual report 2025, attached tables)

    Investor or partner
    Not applicable (the licensing bodies themselves)
    Land
    Not applicable
    Course of the project
    No published financial statements of the Directorate for 2018 to 2024 were found.
    Official findings
    Table 4 of the FBSA 2025 annual report lists bodies that had not submitted their financial statements by 31 Dec 2025: the General Directorate for Industrial Development for 2018 to 2024 and the Industrial Cities Authority for 2022 to 2024. FBSA report 6095 of 3 Mar 2025 on the Industrial Cities Authority is listed in Table 14 (low contractual completion rates in some contracts,… Read the rest observation 4) and Table 17 (internal audit did not check all stages of the contract and its file, observation 3); the contracts are not named in the tables.
    Wording of the source
    الإدارات التي لم تقدم بياناتها المالية
    Sources
    storage.fbsa.gov.iq[1][2][3][4]
  13. 17 December 2025BaghdadLicences, industrial cities and land

    Akkad Industrial City, Rashidiya, Baghdad: licence to establish and develop the first industrial city on privately owned land (light and medium industry)

    Investor or partner
    Not named in the Industrial Cities Authority statement or in the press read
    Land
    125 dunums, privately owned
    Course of the project
    On 10 Mar 2025 the Authority's deputy head, Riyadh Jassim Kadhim, said approvals had been obtained for two Baghdad cities: Rashidiya (125 dunums) and a pharmaceutical city in Yusufiya (174 dunums) to be referred to investment. The Authority's board approved the Akkad project at its second session (Iraq Business News, 1 Oct 2025), and the minister spoke of approving its referral to the private sector. The licence was handed over on 17 Dec 2025.
    Official findings
    None found. Licensee not named.
    Wording of the source
    تم تسليم اجازةانشاء وتطوير مدينة أكد الصناعية في بغداد الراشدية على مساحة ١٢٥ دونم اليوم الأربعاء الموافق ١٧ كانون الأول ٢٠٢٥
    Sources
    cities.industry.gov.iq964media.comiraq-businessnews.comeconomy-news.net
  14. 17 November 2025Not stated (Iraq Business News reports pharmaceutical industrial zones under development in Samarra, Al-Yusufiya)Licences, industrial cities and land

    Pharmaceutical industrial city of the State Company for Drug Industries and Medical Appliances (Samarra), to be built in partnership with a developer; the Industrial Cities Authority to issue the management and development licence

    Investor or partner
    Developer not named; state partner: State Company for Drug Industries and Medical Appliances, Samarra
    Land
    258 dunums
    Course of the project
    The Cabinet decision is an exception from the company's core tasks under the Public Companies Law 22 of 1997. No developer contract was found.
    Official findings
    Cabinet decision of 17 Nov 2025 (executive). No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
    Wording of the source
    خول مجلس الوزراء الشركة العامة لصناعة الأدوية والمستلزمات الطبية/ سامراء، صلاحية الدخول بالمشاركة مع مطور لإنشاء مدينة دوائية صناعية على قطعة الأرض المحددة بالمساحة ( 258) دونماً
    Sources
    964media.comiraq-businessnews.com
  15. 18 October 2025Partnership and rehabilitation contracts

    Plants that the workers' union federation says are being sold or privatised: the Fattah Pasha plant in Kadhimiya, the Cotton plant, the State Company for Petrochemical Industries and Ibn Majid State Company

    Investor or partner
    No buyer named
    State company
    State companies for leather and wool industries and for petrochemical industries, Ibn Majid State Company and others
    Terms
    No contract published. The federation of workers' unions says the ministry is selling and privatising companies on the ground that they lose money and is retiring staff against their will.
    Course of the project
    The federation asked the government to stop all privatisation decisions and forced retirements.
    Official findings
    None. A statement by the Federation of Workers' Unions of Iraq (اتحاد نقابات عمال العراق).
    Wording of the source
    «من بينها مصانع ومعامل الشركة العامة للصناعات الجلدية والصوفية (مصنع فتاح باشا في الكاظمية) ومصنع القطنية، والشركة العامة للصناعات البتروكيمياوية، وشركة ابن ماجد العامة وغيرها بذريعة أنها خاسرة» [shafaq.com]
    Sources
    shafaq.com
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Ministers and directors-general

A name here records a public office. It is not an allegation. The legal status is given with its source and its date.
Ministers and directors-general
NamePostTermLegal statusSources
Mohammed Tofiq Rahim
محمد توفيق رحيم
Minister of Industry and Minerals2003
To: 2004
Not charged as of the date of writing
Listed as minister from 2003 to 2004 in the ministry's Arabic encyclopedia entry; exact dates not found. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read. Not charged as of the date of writing (5 Oct 2026).
ar.wikipedia.org
Hajim al-Hasani
حاجم الحسني
Minister of Industry and Minerals2004
To: 2005
Not charged as of the date of writing
Listed as minister from 2004 to 2005; exact dates not found. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read. Not charged as of the date of writing.
ar.wikipedia.org
Usama al-Nujaifi
أسامة النجيفي
Minister of Industry and Minerals2005
To: 2006
Not charged as of the date of writing
Listed as minister from 2005 to 2006; exact dates not found. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read. Not charged as of the date of writing.
ar.wikipedia.org
Fawzi Hariri
فوزي حريري
Minister of Industry and Minerals20 May 2006
To: 2010-12
Not charged as of the date of writing
Status as of 6 Jun 2014: MP Alia Nassif (Parliamentary Integrity Committee) said a company's referral led the Integrity Commission to open 267 cases against the former minister Fawzi Hariri and the then minister Ahmed al-Karbouli. No charge or ruling found.
ar.wikipedia.orgalsumaria.tv
Ahmad Nasser Dali al-Karbouli
أحمد الكربولي
Minister of Industry and Minerals21 December 2010
To: 2014-09
Not charged as of the date of writing
Status as of 6 Jun 2014: MP Alia Nassif called for his trial, said Integrity Commission files sent to the judiciary contain 'clear incrimination' of the minister (her words) and that the investigating judge turned arrest… Read the rest warrants against him into summonses; she cited 267 cases opened against him and his predecessor. In Sep 2013 MP Kamal al-Saadi said the minister admitted corruption files existed but gave no proof of action. No charge sheet or ruling found in credible sources read.
ar.wikipedia.orgalsumaria.tv[1][2]
Naseer al-Issawi
نصير العيساوي
Minister of Industry and Minerals8 September 2014
To: 2015-07
Not charged as of the date of writing
Resigned at the request of the Sadrist Ahrar bloc; replaced by Mohammed al-Darraji, received by the PM in early July 2015 (Iraq Business News). No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read. Not charged as of the date of writing.
ar.wikipedia.orgiraq-businessnews.com
Mohammed Sahib al-Daraji (al-Darraji)
محمد صاحب الدراجي
Minister of Industry and Minerals2015-07
To: 2016-07
Not charged as of the date of writing
Took over from Naseer al-Issawi in July 2015 (Iraq Business News); named as minister in Dec 2015 by Al-Mada. AFP reported on 19 Jul 2016 that the PM accepted the resignation of the industry minister among others (AFP… Read the rest does not name him). Omitted from the Arabic encyclopedia list. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read. Not charged as of the date of writing.
iraq-businessnews.comalmadapaper.netspacewar.com
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani
محمد شياع السوداني
Acting Minister of Industry and Minerals14 August 2016
To: 25 October 2018
Not charged as of the date of writing
Acting minister while Minister of Labour. On 25 Oct 2016 asked the Integrity Commission to audit the ministry's 170 investment and partnership contracts. In Dec 2018 Kirkuk Cement Company said he had sent its complaint… Read the rest against the Iraqi Cement DG to investigation. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read. Not charged as of the date of writing.
en.wikipedia.orgar.wikipedia.orgalsumaria.tv[1][2]
Saleh (Salih) Abdullah al-Jubouri
صالح عبد الله الجبوري
Minister of Industry and Minerals24 October 2018
To: 7 May 2020
Convicted (reported)
Status as of 1 Feb 2023: the Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court sentenced him in person to one year (Penal Code Art. 331) in the case of a recorded oath to run the ministry on an MP's directions (Shafaq names him;… Read the rest appeal outcome not found). Later, on 6 Apr 2023, an Integrity Commission investigation panel summoned him and his former office director (Art. 331) over approving cement sales at IQD 60,000 a tonne against the official IQD 65,000, a loss put at over IQD 6.5bn on 1.3 million tonnes (Shafaq News English names him). On 20 May 2020 the Commission announced a summons for an unnamed former minister over DG reshuffles against Cabinet Decision 71 of 2011; no source names him in that case.
shafaq.com[1][2]alsumaria.tv[1][2]964media.com
Manhal Aziz al-Khabbaz
منهل عزيز الخباز
Minister of Industry and Minerals7 May 2020
To: 27 October 2022
Not charged as of the date of writing
Status as of 11 May 2023: the Parliamentary Integrity Committee opened files on him. In 2022 MP Hadi al-Salami filed a complaint with the Public Prosecution; MP Ahmed Abdullah al-Jubouri delivered 24 then 28 files signed… Read the rest by 120 MPs, alleged referral of most plants to unreputable investors, scrap sales and nepotism; the minister denied the scrap allegations and said the MP had other motives (Shafaq, 7 May 2022). No charge or ruling against him found.
alsumaria.tv[1][2][3][4][5][6]shafaq.com
Khalid (Khaled) Battal al-Najm
خالد بتال النجم
Minister of Industry and Minerals27 October 2022
To: 2026-05
Not charged as of the date of writing
No official accusation found. Social-media claims in mid 2026 were not confirmed; on 30 Jun 2026 a security source told Shafaq News reports of a siege of his house were false. Chaired the Industrial Cities Authority… Read the rest board; reviewed Southern Fertilizers partnership contracts in Mar 2025; former MP Rahim al-Daraji said in Jun 2026 he gave him a file on a fertiliser project. Not charged as of the date of writing.
shafaq.com[1][2]iraq-businessnews.comalsumaria.tv
Mohammed Nuri Ahmed al-Karbouli
محمد نوري الكربولي
Minister of Industry and Minerals2026-05 (in office by 24 May 2026)
To: in office (Oct 2026)
Not charged as of the date of writing
INA writes his name as محمد نوري أحمد. On 15 Jun 2026 ordered a full review of partnership, rehabilitation and operation contracts and the ministry's investment plan. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding… Read the rest was found in the sources read. Not charged as of the date of writing.
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Adel Karim
Deputy Minister of Industry and Mineralsin post by 2010-03
To: not found
Not charged as of the date of writing
Quoted by Reuters (via Iraq Business News) in March 2010 on plans for joint ventures to overhaul about 240 idle factories. Arabic name not seen in an Arabic source read. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
iraq-businessnews.com
Dr Mohammed Hashim Abdul Majeed
محمد هاشم عبد المجيد
Deputy Minister (planning)in post by 12 November 2018
To: not found
Not charged as of the date of writing
On 12 Nov 2018 chaired a meeting with investors in the Karbala, Samawa and Basra cement plants and said the ministry had stopped new investment licences and would rebalance partnership-contract terms. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
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Mu'tasim al-Nuaimi
معتصم النعيمي
Deputy Minister for Planningin post by 23 April 2020
To: not found
Not charged as of the date of writing
Named by INA on 23 Apr 2020. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
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Yousif Mohammed Jasim al-Janabi
يوسف محمد جاسم الجنابي
Deputy Minister for Planningin post by 2021-12
To: in post on 8 July 2022
Accused by an official body
Status as of 26 May 2022: MP Ahmed Abdullah al-Jubouri accused the minister, this deputy and some DGs of referring most plants to unreputable investors and selling production lines as scrap. On 8 Jul 2022 the Integrity… Read the rest Commission asked the ministry why he had not left office after the Cabinet Secretariat found the extension of his service unlawful. No charge found.
alsumaria.tv[1][2][3]
Ahmed Abdul Jabbar Ali
Deputy Minister for Planningin post by 13 March 2025
To: not found
Not charged as of the date of writing
Named in an English-language report only. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
iraq-businessnews.com
Raed Abdul-Ilah al-Jubouri
رائد عبد الإله الجبوري
Director-General, General Directorate for Industrial Developmentin post on 5 December 2020
To: not found
Arrested
Said in Dec 2020 that exemptions under Law 20 of 1998 had stopped after a Finance Minister decision under the fiscal deficit law. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
ina.iq
Aziz Nazim Abd
عزيز ناظم عبد
Director-General, General Directorate for Industrial Developmentin post 2021 to 2022 (INA reports Aug 2021 to Sep 2022)
To: not found
Not charged as of the date of writing
On 30 Sep 2022 said more than 300 licences under establishment were granted and about 416 projects completed in 18 months. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
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Khalid Sarhan al-Jumaili
خالد سرحان الجميلي
Director-General, General Directorate for Industrial Development (as described by NIRIJ)not found
To: 2023-07
Removed from office
Status as of Jul 2023: NIRIJ reports that a ministry decision in July 2023 relieved him after suspicions over approvals for stopped or fictitious plants, following the handover of the fictitious-plants file to the head… Read the rest of the anti-corruption committee. NIRIJ does not attribute wrongdoing to him. Not charged as of the date of writing.
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Dr Ali Ibrahim Janaan
علي إبراهيم جنعان
Director-General, General Directorate for Industrial Developmentin post by 2 May 2024
To: in post on 10 June 2026
Not charged as of the date of writing
Signs the monthly licence statements. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
iraq-businessnews.com[1][2]
Haifa Hamid
Head of the Investment Department, Ministry of Industry and Mineralsin post on 18 October 2010
To: not found
Not charged as of the date of writing
Told Reuters (via Iraq Business News) that IQD 800bn was allocated for 2011 and the public share in partnerships should be limited. Arabic name not seen in an Arabic source read. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
iraq-businessnews.com
Nasser al-Madani
ناصر المدني
Director-General, State Company for Iraqi Cement (2015 to 2016); later Director-General, Technical Department of the Ministry2015 (DG of Iraqi Cement)
To: in post as Technical Department DG on 1 September 2022
Not charged as of the date of writing
Reported death threats in Mar 2016 over the cement import duty. In Sep 2022 described partnership contracts under the Companies Law and the 100 percent investment model. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
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Hussein Mohsen (Obaid) al-Khafaji
حسين محسن الخفاجي
Director-General, State Company for Iraqi Cementin post on 12 November 2018; again in post on 13 December 2023
To: 18 January 2024 (arrest)
Convicted (reported)
Status as of 24 Apr 2024: the Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court sentenced 'the former DG of the State Company for Iraqi Cement' in person to three years' severe imprisonment and a fine for taking USD 200,000 of a… Read the rest USD 500,000 payment for a board decision referring the Badush plant (Integrity Commission via 964). The statement does not name him; Infoplus named the DG arrested on 18 Jan 2024 as Hussein al-Khafaji, and INA quoted him as DG on 13 Dec 2023. Earlier, in Dec 2018, Kirkuk Cement Company accused him of extortion and bribery. Appeal outcome not found.
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Ali Salih Hadi al-Attar
علي صالح هادي العطار
Director-General, State Company for Iraqi Cementnot found
To: before 24 August 2021
Convicted (reported)
Status as of 24 Aug 2021: sentenced to six years and a fine of IQD 10m for bribery and mediation together with businessman Bahaa al-Jurani, whose companies held partnership contracts with ministry companies (court source via Alsumaria; first instance, appeal outcome not found).
alsumaria.tv
Zuhair Daoud Ahmad
زهير داود أحمد
Director-General, State Company for Iraqi Cementby 2026 (start not found)
To: in post on 9 August 2026
Not charged as of the date of writing
Quoted in the ministry statement on the Al-Qaim plant run in partnership with Al-Maysara Cement Company. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
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Former Director-General, State Company for Iraqi Cement (not named)
Director-General, State Company for Iraqi Cementnot found
To: not found
Under investigation
Status as of 20 Mar 2023: the Nineveh integrity investigation court issued a summons (Art. 331) over a contract to maintain and rehabilitate two fuel tanks at the Badush plant. The statement does not name the person. Outcome not found.
964media.com
Abbas Hayal
عباس حيال
Director-General, State Company for Iron and Steel (Basra)not found
To: in post on 26 November 2022
Not charged as of the date of writing
Said in Nov 2022 that he and staff faced targeting, investigation and penalties linked to scrap smuggling interests while pushing the steel plant project. This is his own account; no case against him found.
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Ali Shafi Asaad Arzij
علي شافي أسعد ارزيج
Director-General, State Company for Design and Implementation of Industrial Projects and Investments (merged)not found
To: not found
Convicted in absentia
Status as of 5 Jul 2024: Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court, six years in absentia and repayment of IQD 2.944bn (unexplained wealth of IQD 1.472bn plus an equal fine). Earlier: seven years in absentia (Rusafa… Read the rest Criminal Court, Nov 2023, mud-school projects) and seven years in absentia (Mar 2024, waste of IQD 304.5m on the Nahrawan industrial complex). Arrest warrants issued; described as a fugitive convict.
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Waddah Salah Mohammed Saeed
وضاح صلاح محمد سعيد
Director-General, State Company for Communications and Power (as stated by an MP)2022 (as stated by an MP)
To: not found
Accused by an official body
Status as of 19 May 2022: MP Ahmed al-Jubouri said minister al-Khabbaz, his maternal uncle, appointed him DG. Nepotism allegation by an MP only; no finding found.
alsumaria.tv
Abdul Hamid al-Salem
عبد الحميد السالم
Director-General, State Company for Drugs and Medical Appliances, Samarra2022-05 (re-appointed, per source)
To: not found
Accused in credible reporting
Status as of 13 May 2022: an Alsumaria source said he was accused in corruption cases from his earlier term and still under investigation. In Oct 2022 the Salahuddin integrity court summoned the company's then DG (not… Read the rest named) and other managers; in May 2024 a former DG (not named) was caught writing an IQD 1bn cheque for reappointment. The sources do not say whether these refer to him.
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Former Director-General, State Company for Drugs and Medical Appliances, Samarra (not named)
Former Director-Generalnot found
To: not found
Arrested
Status as of 19 May 2024: caught in an Integrity Commission sting writing a cheque of IQD 1bn in return for reappointment as DG (Decision 160 of 1983); referred to the investigating judge. Outcome not found.
964media.com
Former Director-General, State Company for Glass and Refractories (not named)
Former Director-Generalnot found
To: not found
Under investigation
Status as of 20 Nov 2023: the Anbar integrity investigation court summoned him (Art. 331) over the referral of an investment contract for the glass and ceramics plants with a Russian consortium worth USD 7,305,000 (rehabilitation, operation and production sharing). Outcome not found.
baghdadtoday.news
Director-General, State Company for Textile and Leather (not named)
Director-Generalnot found
To: not found
Convicted (reported)
Status as of 12 May 2022: Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court, two in-person sentences of three years and fines for taking money to award tent supply contracts. A DG of the same company and its legal manager were… Read the rest summoned in Apr 2023 (Art. 331); the sources do not say whether this is the same person.
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Director-General, State Company for Food Products (not named)
Director-Generalnot found
To: not found
Arrested
Status as of 5 Jun 2021: arrest warrant (Art. 340) executed at the company's offices in the case of the pier 11 rehabilitation and operation contract at Umm Qasr. A DG of the company was summoned in Mar 2022 over damaged… Read the rest sugar; the sources do not say whether this is the same person. Outcome not found.
alsumaria.tv[1][2]
Director-General, State Company for Hydraulic Industries (not named)
Director-Generalnot found
To: 5 October 2023 (arrest)
Convicted (reported)
Status as of 8 Jan 2024: Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court, six years in person and a fine of IQD 10m for taking a bribe of IQD 25m to pass contract cheques. Appeal outcome not found.
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Former Director-General, State Company for Engineering Support (not named)
Former Director-Generalnot found
To: not found
Convicted (reported)
Status as of 29 Apr 2019: two sentences of seven years each (Art. 340) over credit payments against contract terms and scrap transport contracts; in Feb 2019 the Commission called him a fugitive convict in a scrap sale case. Not named.
alsumaria.tv[1][2]
Former Director-General, State Company for Mining Industries (not named)
Former Director-Generalnot found
To: not found
Under investigation
Status as of 6 Mar 2023: Rusafa integrity court summons for unexplained wealth of IQD 2.748bn (Integrity Law Art. 19/second). Outcome not found.
964media.com
Director-General in the Ministry (company not named)
Director-Generalnot found
To: not found
Under investigation
Status as of 4 May 2020: Rusafa integrity court summons (Art. 340) for spending against the instructions and controls on partnership contracts. Outcome not found.
alsumaria.tv
Former office director of Minister Saleh al-Jubouri (not named)
Director of the Minister's Office2018 to 2020 (term of the minister)
To: not found
Under investigation
Status as of 6 Apr 2023: summoned with the former minister over cement sales below the official price. Outcome not found.
964media.comshafaq.com
Anas Hashim
Director-General, Industrial Cities Authorityin post by 10 June 2026
To: in post (latest source)
Not charged as of the date of writing
Named in an English-language report. The Authority's 2021 contract with Al-Yusra is criticised by the audit bureau. No charge, court ruling, sanction or official finding was found in the sources read.
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