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Former Iraqi officials accused of
corruption flee to Germany via Kurdistan
10.6.2009
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June
10, 2009
BAQUBA, Iraq,— Two former senior officials
in Iraq's volatile Diyala province accused of
corruption have fled to Germany and the autonomous
region of Kurdistan, a security official said on
Tuesday.
"The Committee for Pubic Integrity in Diyala
(northeast of Baghdad) has ordered the arrest of two
former deputy governors, Abdul Razaq al-Khalisi and
Auf Rahum, for theft of public funds," said the
official in the provincial capital Baquba.
"But the former has fled to Kurdistan, and the
latter to Germany," she added.
Khalisi is an independent Shiite politician, while
Rahum is a Sunni from the Islamic Party. The pair
have been accused of being involved in a case of
fraud amounting to 130 million dollars.
As part of the same case, a warrant was issued two
months ago for the arrest of the outgoing chairman
of Diyala provincial council, Ibrahim Hassan Bajilan.
Bajilan is a member of Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
Mahdi Saleh, a provincial councillor from the
Islamic Party, told AFP that on examining the
province's 2008 financial records,www.ekurd.net
"we found expenditures for non-existent projects and
deposits of money in their accounts without
justification."
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