Integrity Commission Arrests Seven Suspects in Bribery and Fraud Cases in Baghdad

The Federal Integrity Commission announced on Tuesday that it had carried out three enforcement operations in several government departments across Baghdad, resulting in the arrest of seven suspects caught in cases involving bribery and fraud.

According to a statement, a team from the Investigation and Enforcement Department in the Baghdad Investigation Directorate set up a controlled sting operation and arrested three employees of the South Rusafa Electricity Directorate, along with an intermediary, while they were receiving a bribe in exchange for destroying a case filed against an individual accused of illegally encroaching on the electricity transmission network.

In a separate operation, the team arrested two employees of the Baghdad Electricity Distribution Company/Rusafa after catching them receiving a bribe in return for refraining from imposing a financial fine for a violation involving unauthorized access to the national electricity network.

The commission also apprehended a man accused of defrauding a female citizen after allegedly claiming that he could obtain a security-status document for her deceased brother from the Martyrs Foundation and complete her pension-related transaction with the National Pension Authority in exchange for money. The payment was recovered from his possession.

The commission said arrest orders were issued by the Second Karkh Investigation Court and the Rusafa court specializing in integrity, money-laundering and economic-crime cases, in accordance with Resolution No. 160 of 1983.