Iraq | Five people were arrested in cases of extortion and tampering with real estate auctions in Diwaniyah | CUAC

Civil Union - Follow-ups The Iraqi Federal Integrity Commission announced the arrest of five people in Diwaniyah Governorate, including two media professionals working for a local radio station, a security member, and an employee in the Education Directorate, against the backdrop of three separate cases related to suspicions of financial extortion and influencing official bidding. The authority explained that the first case related to requesting sums of money from employees in exchange for promises to allocate residential plots of land to them, while the second case witnessed the arrest of two people, one of whom was a security employee, while receiving a sum of money in exchange for not participating in an auction for a property belonging to the Diwaniyah Municipality. As for the third case, it relates to the suspected involvement of an employee in the Education Directorate by requesting a sum of money from one of the competitors in an auction to rent a place belonging to the College of Science at Al-Qadisiyah University, in exchange for not competing in the bid. The authority stated that the judge of the Diwaniyah Investigation Court specialized in integrity cases decided to arrest the five defendants in accordance with legal procedures, to complete investigations and take the necessary measures against them. Source: The Insight