Abadi issues arrest warrants against many corrupt senior officials
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued an initial list of officials who have been convicted with corruption charges on Wednesday.


A well informed source said that Abadi will supervise the investigations with first patch of 130 senior officials suspects, who are charged with embezzlement and other corruption charges.


The list included:


1- Former finance minister Hoshyar Zebari


2- Former Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi


3- Former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's military adviser Farouq al-Araji


4- Former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's former secretary Abu Mujahid al-Rakabi


5- Incumbent MP Hussein al-Maliki


6- Incumbent MP Yasser Sukheil al-Maliki


7- Basra's former governor Majid al-Nasrawyi


8- Former defense minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi


9- Former defense minister Abdul Qadir Obeidi


10-Former head of intelligence Zuheir al-Gharabawi


The list also included many incumbent and former senior officials from different branches of the Iraqi government.

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