Since September 2021 tax deposits have been raided of 3.7trn Iraqi dinars ($2.5bn), according to an investigation cited by Iraq’s new prime minister. Corruption on this scale tends to start from the top
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskIraq has long suffered under greedy rulers. Saddam Hussein treated the state’s resources as his own. Since he was ousted by American troops in 2003, successive elected governments have been riddled with graft. Officials take cuts from contracts or hire ghost workers and pocket their salaries. Even so, a recent alleged theft is hard to top. Since September 2021 the country’s tax deposits have been raided to the tune of 3.
Mr Sudani, the first Iraqi prime minister to have lived in Iraq continuously since the American invasion in 2003, has vowed to root out corruption. One investigator, suspecting that more shell companies will be uncovered, reckons that between a third and a quarter of last year’s government budget of $92bn has gone astray.
Mr Sudani has also launched a state-financed company to administer government projects. It is run by a caucus of pro-Iranian Shia militias known as the Hashd al-Shaabi , whose political wings dominate Mr Sudani’s coalition. After helping to defeat the jihadists of Islamic State, who conquered a swathe of Iraq and Syria in 2014, the Hashd insists that its mission is to rebuild Iraq.
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