In a secured compound in Iraqi Kurdistan, authorities last week completed the transfer of 358 kilograms of gold bars to the Central Bank in Baghdad, the single largest financial seizure in the country’s modern history of corruption prosecutions. A separate cache of 17 kilograms was recovered through a parallel federal operation the same day, bringing the total to 375 kilograms of gold belonging to a single official. Both seizures, confirmed Sunday by Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, are linked to Adnan Al-Jumaili, the country’s former Deputy Oil Minister, who was detained in May 2026 and formally dismissed from his ... (full story)