Iraq arrests senior Oil Ministry official on corruption – Shafaq News

Shafaq News-
Baghdad

A special
security force arrested on Saturday Adnan Hamad Hamoud, Deputy Minister of Oil
for Refining Affairs and Director General of the North Refineries Company and
Baiji Refinery, on corruption-related charges.

An informed
source told Shafaq News that the arrest was carried out in the Ishaki area of Saladin
province, following “Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi’s declared campaign
against corruption and the auditing of government contracts.”

Shafaq News
reviewed a classified urgent dispatch from the Saladin provincial police
command confirming the arrest operation and the referral of preliminary case
files to the Ministry of Interior’s Intelligence and Federal Investigations
Agency.

The Iraqi
Ministry of Oil could not be reached for comment on the arrest.

According to
Al-Zaidi’s official government program, the anti-corruption centers on
institutional reform across all ministries, parallel financial investigations,
reduced bureaucracy through digital transformation, and decentralization of
administrative and financial authority to the provinces, underpinned by a
national oversight framework.

Read more: What does Iraq’s new government promise? A guide to Ali Al-Zaidi’s ministerial program