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UN oversight of Iraqi oil money struggling to adapt

Alleged fuel smuggling from Kurdish region to Iran highlights gaps in UN-mandated monitoring of Iraqi oil money.

Oil tankers heading to fill up at the Tawke oil field in June 2008. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)
Oil tankers heading to fill up at the Tawke oil field in June 2008. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)
By Ben Lando of Iraq Oil Report
Published July 28, 2010

Recent allegations of illicit exports to Iran have exposed major flaws in the UN-mandated oversight of Iraq’s oil revenue.

Since 2003, a UN-appointed body called the International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) has been tasked with overseeing all of Iraq's hydrocarbon export revenue. But the recent fuel-smuggling scandal has highlighted aspects of the oil trade that IAMB has been powerless to track.

Local sales of fuel and oil also bring up unresolved issues between Baghdad and the...

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