Commission chief Hassan al-Yassiri told news hounds on Friday that arrest warrants had been issued for the accused and that the international police (INTERPOL) had been notified.
Yassiri said that 15 former ministers, 122 bigwigs and 1,668 civil servants had been indicted for stealing public funds, embezzlement, bribery, corruption and other charges.
The Al-Araby al-Jadeed news website quoted Yassiri as saying that the number was "for this year alone." He said he hoped that Iraqi authorities would act on the warrants to arrest the accused, and that INTERPOL had been notified of the names.
Yassiri said that 889 billion Iraqi dinars (more than $768 million) had been confirmed missing from the national treasury, and thon the lamr amounts were still to be investigated.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said after taking office in August last year that $45 billion was missing from the 2014 budget, when his predecessor
Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
had been in charge.