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Paul Jennings appeared before Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday charged with alleged offences of conspiring to make corrupt payments to public officials in Indonesia and Iraq to secure contracts for Innospec Ltd for the supply of its products. Mr Jennings, a former CEO for Innospec Ltd, pleaded guilty today to the following charges: […]
A U.S. Army major who pleaded guilty to accepting $20,000 in bribes from an Iraqi contractor was sentenced last week to six months in federal prison, according to a report from Reuters. In addition to his prison sentence, Christopher Bradley, aged 42, of El Paso, Texas was also ordered to pay restitution. Federal prosecutors said […]
After almost 10 years, the former chief executive of Australia's AWB Ltd has admitted to four breaches of the law relating bribes paid to Saddam Hussein's government between 2001 and 2005 to secure wheat sales. According to the report in The Australian, Andrew Lindberg's four admissions relate to his having failed to tell the AWB […]
According to a report from UPI, global security consultancy Stratfor says Iran is systematically stealing Iraq's oil, either by siphoning it off from pipelines to boost its own exports, or by extending its control over Iraq's southern oilfields in Shiite-controlled Basra province: "Iran's deep political, economic and militant links in Iraq -- particularly in the […]
Iraq's Commission on Integrity has arrested a man who was passing himself off as an Inspector General of the Commission. According to the Commission, the man, who was not named, used official government cars and was protected by police. He allegedly tricked his way into police stations and other official offices to gather names of […]
AKnews reports that one hundred unlicensed pharmacies were shut down throughout Iraq in April, and four tons of out-of-date medicine were seized and destroyed. The Inspector General at the Health Ministry, Adel Muhsin, said the ministry closed the pharmacies for selling drugs that were unfit for human consumption and came from unknown factories and origins. […]
More than $5m (5.8bn IQD) worth of fuel is stolen each month from the amount allocated to three Turkish barges that produce power in Basra, a government investigation has revealed. According to the report from Aknews, Iraq's Electricity Ministry announced the discovery following an ongoing investigation into fuel theft. The Inspector General of the Ministry, […]
Iraq's Commission on Integrity referred hundreds of cases of suspected corruption, involving 1088 suspected criminals, to the judiciary in the first quarter of this year. The total value of the frauds involved comes to $69 million (83 billion Iraqi dinars). A organisation's quarterly report breaks down the cases by region: Baghdad /Al-Rysafa: 67 cases; Al-Karkh office, […]
Iraq has ranked worst on the Committee to Protect Journalists' Impunity Index for the fifth consecutive year. The Impunity Index calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population. With more than 90 unsolved murders, Iraq's impunity rating dwarfs that of every other nation. "Most of the murders occurred as Iraq was immersed […]
A former U.S. civilian contractor has pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of North Carolina to conspiring to steal military generators in Iraq in 2011 and selling them on the black market, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker for the Eastern District […]
The head of Iraq's Integrity Commission, Judge Ala’a Jwad Hameed, has said that rooting out corruption is the duty of all honest Iraqis, and expressed his optimism for increased cooperation between the Commission and government agencies. At a meeting with the governors of Najaf, Karbala and Babel, he emphasised the need to create a culture […]
The European Commission has imposed fines totalling 169 million euros on 14 freight forwarding companies for conspiring to fix the prices of surcharges. In 2003, soon after the UK introduced electronic declarations for exports, the companies broke the law by conspiring to levy a surcharge for this reporting service, according to the Financial Times. They agreed […]
