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Bringing transparency to Iraq’s crude world

Oil Ministry Inspector General talks about the smuggling evolution, and wants more civil society participation in Iraq’s efforts to be transparent.

BAGHDAD - Having just been named the fifth most corrupt country in the world by Transparency International, you’d expect a sort of madness in the office of the internal investigation chief within Iraq’s Oil Ministry.

Nearly all state revenue – thus motivation for corruption – comes from selling nearly 2 million barrels of oil per day.

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