{"id":9128,"date":"2026-06-28T14:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/iraqi-lawmakers-arrested-in-overnight-corruption-raid\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:14:26","slug":"iraqi-lawmakers-arrested-in-overnight-corruption-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/iraqi-lawmakers-arrested-in-overnight-corruption-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Lawmakers Arrested in Overnight Corruption Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arrests stemmed from statements provided by <strong>Adnan al-Jumaili<\/strong>, the former Deputy Minister of Oil who was taken into custody last month, as reported by Iraq&#8217;s state-run Iraqi News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi security forces sealed off all entrances to Baghdad&#8217;s heavily fortified Green Zone in the early hours of Sunday, conducting raids throughout the compound that serves as home to critical government institutions and foreign embassies.<\/p>\n<p>Seven individuals were arrested in total, five of whom are current members of Parliament, according to a security agency report obtained by The Associated Press and cited by <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Several of those arrested belong to the political bloc of former Prime Minister <strong>Mohammed Shia al-Sudani<\/strong>. The specific nature of the corruption allegations against them has not been publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Sudani&#8217;s bloc secured the largest number of seats in parliamentary elections held last November, but he ultimately withdrew from the premiership race amid internal deadlock within the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Shiite parties with ties to Iran that had initially brought al-Sudani to power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ali al-Zaidi<\/strong>, a businessman and political newcomer, replaced him as a consensus candidate with backing from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests are expected to send shockwaves through Iraq&#8217;s deeply fragmented political arena, where corruption allegations often blur with power struggles and competing influences among rival factions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi security forces arrested seven people including five sitting parliamentarians on corruption charges Sunday, sealing off Baghdad&#8217;s Green Zone during predawn raids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[8326,8322,8323,8324,532,8327,8325],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-9128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adnan-al-jumaili","tag-baghdad","tag-corruption-arrests","tag-green-zone","tag-iraq","tag-mohammed-shia-al-sudani","tag-parliament-members","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}