Kurdistan Region hands over an embezzlement suspect to the Integrity Commission

The Federal Integrity Commission announced the receipt of one of the wanted fugitives from the security authorities in the Kurdistan Region after entering Iraqi territory coming from Turkey, noting that the convict embezzled an amount of public money during his work in the Ministry of Electricity. The Media and Government Communication Office of the Commission indicated in a statement that "the coordination and cooperation between the Recovery Department of the Commission and the Arab and International Police Directorate of the Ministry of Interior resulted in the receipt of the fugitive convict (Issam Ismail Eidan Dhiab al-Janabi) from the General Police Directorate in Kurdistan, indicating that the convict was tracked during his stay and movement among a number of places in Turkey, explaining that he was arrested upon entering Erbil, where he was detained in the General Police Directorate in the region." The office continued that "the Karkh Criminal Court - the Third Authority issued a decision in absenti a to impose a ten-year prison sentence on the convict; based on the provisions of Article 316 of the Penal Code, noting that the convict was absent from work when he was working as treasurer of the Karkh Southern Electricity Sector of the General Directorate of Karkh Electricity Distribution; after embezzling the collection amounts handed over to him from citizens. Source: National Iraqi News Agency