Shafaq News-Baghdad
A specialsecurity force arrested on Saturday Adnan Hamad Hamoud, Deputy Minister of Oilfor Refining Affairs and Director General of the North Refineries Company andBaiji Refinery, on corruption-related charges.
An informedsource told Shafaq News that the arrest was carried out in the Ishaki area of Saladinprovince, following “Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi's declared campaignagainst corruption and the auditing of government contracts.”
Shafaq Newsreviewed a classified urgent dispatch from the Saladin provincial policecommand confirming the arrest operation and the referral of preliminary casefiles to the Ministry of Interior's Intelligence and Federal InvestigationsAgency.
The IraqiMinistry of Oil could not be reached for comment on the arrest.
According toAl-Zaidi’s official government program, the anti-corruption centers oninstitutional reform across all ministries, parallel financial investigations,reduced bureaucracy through digital transformation, and decentralization ofadministrative and financial authority to the provinces, underpinned by anational oversight framework.
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