Shafaq News- Baghdad
Iraqi investigators found 25 plastic water bottles stuffed with USdollar banknotes hidden inside a chimney at the home of detained Deputy OilMinister for Refining Affairs Adnan al-Jumaili in Tikrit, a security sourcetold Shafaq News on Thursday.
The search operation was conducted by the Federal Commission ofIntegrity as part of the ongoing nationwide anti-corruption campaign.
The source did not disclose the amount of money recovered from thebottles, noting that legal procedures remain underway under the supervision ofjudicial authorities overseeing the case.
Al-Jumaili was arrested in May in the Ishaqi area of Saladin provinceand dismissed from his post on June 2. His testimony under interrogation hasled to arrest warrants for more than 70 officials, according to Iraqi judicialstatements and Shafaq News sources, and forms the basis of a widening inquiry underthe Dawn Crackdown (Sawlat al-Fajr), which has drawn in members of parliament,provincial officials, and businessmen.
On Monday, the Nineveh Integrity Investigation Court ordered the seizureof assets worth about 69 billion Iraqi dinars ($52M), in a money laundering andcorruption case linked to al-Jumaili and other suspects. Iraq’s SupremeJudicial Council separately reported the recovery of 375 kilograms of gold tiedto the same case.
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