Iraq anti-corruption body arrests six oil and finance ministry employees in Mosul

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Federal Anti-Corruption Commission said six employees of the country's oil and finance ministries were detained in two separate operations in Mosul on corruption and misconduct charges. According to a written statement from the commission, its field team attached to the Mosul investigation directorate raided a state-run fuel filling station in the city and arrested four employees. Inspections found discrepancies between gasoline quantities listed in the station's records and the actual amounts in storage, and that the station's warehouse supervisor had failed to deposit revenue from fuel sales into state accounts, keeping the cash in a private vehicle. The team also went to the local retirement directorate, where it detained two staff members — one who had followed original case files without legal basis and another employee — in the absence of the relevant party. The commission said the arrests were carried out under Articles 315 and 331 of the Iraqi Penal Code, in line with decisions by the Mosul prosecutor handling corruption cases. No further details were immediately available.