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Iraq to arrest 1,000 'corrupt' officials
2009-05-28
Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog says arrest warrants have been issued for some 1,000 allegedly corrupt officials.

Few details were disclosed, but the Commission on Public Integrity said at least 50 were senior figures.

The commission has previously said the most serious complaints concern the trade ministry, where officials allegedly took bribes for contracts.

This week Prime Minister Nouri Maliki accepted the resignation of his trade minister over corruption accusations.

The former minister - Abdul Falah Sudani, one of whose brothers has been detained for corruption and who has another brother on the run - offered his resignation on 14 May and parliament has been scrutinising his case.

A vote of no confidence is due to take place on Thursday, which could determine whether Mr Sudani - who denies any wrongdoing - will face criminal charges.

The anti-corruption committee statement said there were as many as 997 arrest warrants against officials under suspicion and 53 were at director-general level or above.

The statement added that 51 officials had been arrested in April and 69 were arrested in May, including 33 last Sunday.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#5  I remember the story of a large corporate businessman who quit because of stress, then decided to start a bagel delivery service to large corporate businesses.

He worked on the honor payment system, and soon noted that companies varied considerably in honesty. So in one of the really dishonest companies, he put up a hidden camera, to video employees who were not paying.

When he showed it to the personnel director, the man noted a high correlation between those who stole bagels and those who were suspected of dishonesty on the job. With bagel theft as evidence, they were fired, and the company noted a sharp drop in internal, much more serious, theft, amounting to thousands of dollars.

So the bagel salesman became a security consultant, using bagels as a means to purge dishonest employees. If they would steal his bagels, they were likely to steal other things as well.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-05-28 17:33  

#4  Is this a much needed house cleaning or is it an ominous purge? How can we tell the difference?

Pre-election antics.
Posted by: Pappy   2009-05-28 14:38  

#3  That's nothing. We could find half that many corrupt officials just in the US Congress.
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-05-28 13:17  

#2  grayt succseaius!
Posted by: borat   2009-05-28 03:31  

#1  Is this a much needed house cleaning or is it an ominous purge? How can we tell the difference?
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-05-28 03:11  

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