ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq has seized a total of over $26 million across several locations on Monday and arrested a number of suspects involved in the corruption network affiliated with the accused Adnan al-Jumaili as authorities expand the nationwide crackdown.
The Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council announced that "the investigative judge of the Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court declared the seizure of an additional 25 billion Iraqi dinars [~$19 million], as well as $1 million, alongside gold jewelry estimated at approximately 5 kilograms," from "the detained suspect, Adnan al-Jumaili, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil for Refining Affairs, and the parties involved with him."
The announcement comes as Iraqi authorities are making headway with Operation Dawn, a large-scale anti-corruption campaign launched last week in coordination with Iraq's Federal Commission of Integrity.
To date, the operation has resulted in the arrest of dozens of Iraqi politicians and lawmakers, former officials, and senior government employees, in addition to tens of millions of dollars in stolen assets and seized state properties illegally transferred into private ownership.
According to the Judicial Council, the total value of seized assets from Jumaili has risen to 127 billion Iraqi dinars [~$97 million] and $24 million, in addition to confiscated real estate, vehicles, and gold jewelry.
In a separate incident, two officials in Saladin province told Rudaw on Monday that "a security force arrested Hamad al-Jumaili, the Project Manager at Baiji Refinery, on corruption charges." They added that the arrest took place in the Shirqat district and is linked to the corruption case against former Oil Ministry Undersecretary Jumaili.
The financial sum exceeded three billion Iraqi dinars [~$2.2 million], another official in Saladin province stated.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry later divulged that its intelligence agency arrested yet another suspect in the Jumaili corruption network in Saladin province, in which they “seized over three million US dollars and more than seven hundred and fifty million Iraqi dinars [~$570 thousand],” along with light weapons, vehicles, and government contracts at the suspect's home.
Iraq ranked 136th out of 182 countries in Transparency International's 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), scoring 28 out of 100, reflecting a high level of public-sector corruption by global standards.
