Abdul Wahid said in December that financial, commercial and oil transactions made under the Barzani's supervision lack transparency.
Hoshyar Abdullah, head of the parliamentary bloc of change, had previously accused Barzani's KDP of exporting 1 million oil barrels per day through Turkey, knowing that the export revenue destinations have yet to be revealed.
PUK leader Hero Ahmed sent a letter to Abadi in September calling on Abadi to prevent Iraqi Kurdistan from exporting oil due to its failure to follow “the principles of transparency and fairness when it comes to oil in the region.”
Ares Abdullah, a PUK parliament member and chairman of the parliamentary oil and energy bloc, in February accused the KDP of exporting 400,000 oil barrels from Kirkuk while only handing over the revenues from 20,000 barrels to the government coffers.
Also, WikiLeaks published secret documents a year ago about the existence of a deal between the KRG and Turkey to sell oil fields to Turkey in exchange for $5 billion. Muhsin al-Sadoun, a leader in Barzani's KDP, just confirmed in a Dec. 29 interview with Al-Baghdadia News that “Minister of Natural Resources in Kurdistan Ashti Hawrami had previously suggested selling several oil fields in the Kurdistan Region to Turkish Energy Minister Bert Bayrak to repay debt and resolve the financial crisis plaguing the Erbil government.” However, the deal was not concluded, according to Sadoun.
The Kurdistan oil issue will remain a card in the hands of Baghdad, Tehran and Ankara to achieve their political goals in Iraqi Kurdistan, which means it will remain a key obstacle to the Kurdistan independence project as long as the Kurdish parties fail to conclude a transparent and fair agreement.
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