Parliament to investigate Ninewa-Exxon talks
After Kurdistan and Exxon appeared to win a key ally in Ninewa Gov. Atheel Nujaifi, a Parliament committee has been formed to investigate their oil negotiations.
Atheel Nujaifi, the governor of Ninewa province, in a May 2012 interview in his office in Mosul. (KAMARAN NAJM/Metrography/Iraq Oil Report)
Iraq's Parliament has ordered a six-member committee, led by the head of the Parliament's Oil and Energy Committee, Adnan Janabi, to investigate claims made by the governor of Ninewa province that he is negotiating oil deals with ExxonMobil.
"The main reason for forming this committee is to look into and investigate what has been said and published in the media – that the governor of Mosul, Mr. Atheel Nujaifi, was holding talks and coordinating with the government of Kurdistan and the foreign companies working in Kurdistan," said Furat al-Shara'a, a member of the investigative committee.
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