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Baghdad seeks KRG help to nab corrupt officials

The government of Iraq will work with the Kurdish officials at the international airports in Erbil and Sulaimani in a bid to prevent citizens charged with corruption or wanted by the law from leaving the county. “The Iraqi Commission of Integrity has planned to create coordination through the board of Erbil-Baghdad relations to prevent corrupt […]

Rudaw reports :

The government of Iraq will work with the Kurdish officials at the international airports in Erbil and Sulaimani in a bid to prevent citizens charged with corruption or wanted by the law from leaving the county.

“The Iraqi Commission of Integrity has planned to create coordination through the board of Erbil-Baghdad relations to prevent corrupt Iraqi leaders who are wanted by the court and with arrest warrants from traveling abroad,” Hassan Yasiri, head of the Iraqi Commission of Integrity, said on Monday in a statement. The commission has sent a list of wanted Iraqi officials to representatives of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Baghdad, according to the statement.