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Integrity body arrests four over $1.5M electricity theft in Diyala

Shafaq News 2026/07/09 11:52

Shafaq News-Baghdad

Iraq's FederalCommission of Integrity arrested four employees at the General Company forElectricity Distribution in Diyala province on Thursday, after an audituncovered the theft of electrical materials worth approximately two billiondinars (about $1.5 million).

Aninvestigative team from the commission's Diyala office cross-referencedwarehouse transfer documents from 2022 to 2025 against the storage system'srecords, finding that materials listed in two documents had never been enteredinto the company's warehouses despite being officially received by anauthorized employee.

A formaldetention record was drawn up in the presence of company representatives, andthe four suspects were referred, along with the seized criminal evidence, tothe investigating judge at Baquba Court for appropriate legal measures.

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