News Source: Androscoggin News
| 6 months ago
Iraq has launched a campaign to arrest almost 1000 officials for corruption. The Government made the announcement on Wednesday after the Trade Minister resigned amid claims family members made millions in kickbacks from sugar purchases. Prime...
News Source: Press TV
| 6 months ago
According to the report, which released on Wednesday, the Commission on Public Integrity has issued arrest warrants for 997 officials including 50 senior figures. The announcement was made just days after the resignation of Iraq's Trade Minister,...
News Source: The Daily Star
| 6 months ago
Iraq started exporting crude oil from its largely autonomous Kurdistan region for the first time on Wednesday, shipping it from the Tawke field to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, the Oil Ministry said. "We finished linking the pipelines from the Tawke...
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 6 months ago
Iraq leader vows to end corruption amid scandal Iraq has launched a campaign to arrest almost 1,000 officials for corruption, the government said on Wednesday, after the trade minister resigned amid claims family members made millions in kickbacks...
News Source: Financial Times
| 6 months ago
For the past two years, foreign oil companies working in Kurdistan have had their hands tied. They have not been able to export their oil and have limited their development in the region...Kurdish oil is expected to start flowing through a pipeline...
News Source: BBC
| 6 months ago
Few details were disclosed, but the Commission on Public Integrity said at least 50 were senior figures. The commission has previously said the most serious complaints concern the trade ministry, where officials allegedly took bribes for contracts.