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Investment licences

This register holds 768 investment licences from the lists of the National Investment Commission and the Baghdad Investment Commission. For each licence it gives the project, the licensee, the place, the body that holds the land, the stated cost and how far the work has gone, as the licensing body recorded them. The stated cost of these licences is about $79.6 billion. That figure is what the licensees declared, not money that was spent.

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Licensing body:

National Investment Commission

The national commission licenses the large projects. Its list covers licences granted from 2009 to 2020, with the state of each project as the commission recorded it.
387
licences held by 319 licensees
Tier A
$66.3 billion
stated cost of the 375 licences that give one. Costs listed in dinars are converted at 1,190 dinars to the dollar.
Tier B
96
licences withdrawn, without a signed contract or not started, according to the list
Tier A

By sector

  1. Commerce76
  2. Industry59
  3. Services50
  4. Housing42
  5. Sport and leisure34
  6. Tourism25
  7. Energy24
  8. Agriculture23
  9. Health23
  10. Education14
  11. Transport9
  12. Telecommunications8

By the state of the project in the list

  1. Not reported104
  2. Completed81
  3. New licence68
  4. Contract not signed48
  5. Under way38
  6. Withdrawn36
  7. Not started12

By province

  1. Babil90
  2. Basra84
  3. Baghdad66
  4. Najaf40
  5. Qadisiyah34
  6. Dhi Qar19
  7. Diyala10
  8. Several provinces7
  9. Maysan7
  10. Kirkuk5

Licences by year of grant

Source: List of the National Investment CommissionTier A

Licensees with more than one licence

Source: The list of licensed projects of the National Investment Commission. The grouping by sector and by state of the project is ours, made from the fields of the list.Tier A

What was found about the licensees

Of the 768 licences, the search of public sources is complete for the licensees of 43 and has begun but is not complete for 117. The work continues.

Among the licences whose research has begun, 12 have a licensee whose legal status is something other than “not charged”, or for whom a published source records a link to a politician, a party, an official or an armed group. For the rest, no charge, judgment, sanction or official finding has been found so far. Where the search is not complete, the entry says so. The button “With a finding or a stated link” below limits the table to these licences.

Sector:
State of the project:
Holder of the land:
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Showing entries 1 to 3 of 3.
Investment licences
LicenseeProjectSectorProvince and holder of the landStated costState of the projectLegal status
Abdul-Rahman Yousif Odeh
عبد الرحمن يوسف عودة
Imam Al-Kadhim institute and secondary school for Islamic sciences
74/2016 11 February 2016
EducationDhi Qar$1.4 million
converted from dinars
Completed
100%
Not charged as of the date of writing
Abdul-Rahman Yousif Odeh
عبد الرحمن يوسف عودة
Al-Nazaha residential complex
98/2016 19 September 2016
HousingDhi Qar$2.3 millionCompleted
100%
Not charged as of the date of writing
Abdul-Rahman Yusuf Auda and Abdul-Nabi Ismail Ibrahim
عبد الرحمن يوسف عودة و عبد النبي إسماعيل إبراهيم
Al-Ain private university
184/2018 13 March 2018
EducationDhi Qar$4.4 million
converted from dinars
Under way
45%
Not yet researched
Download:register_investment_licences.csv.xlsx