The Integrity Commission announces the preparation of draft international memoranda of understanding for the recovery of funds and the extradition of accused persons.
The Integrity Commission announces the preparation of draft international memoranda of understanding for the recovery of funds and the extradition of accused persons.
7-11-2026
The Federal Integrity Commission announced on Saturday that it has prepared a draft of international memoranda of understanding for the recovery of funds and the extradition of accused individuals. Abbas Mutab, Director General of the Recovery Department at the Integrity Commission and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Iraqi Funds Recovery Fund, stated in a statement to the official agency that “there are some countries that are not cooperating in the file of recovering the funds of corrupt individuals for their own reasons, and there are countries that are cooperating in this regard.”
He also explained that “the department has prepared a draft for signing memoranda of understanding with those countries to recover funds and the accused, and we are following up with the countries and the changes, but some countries’ internal laws do not allow for taking a specific action requested by Iraq.”
He added that “Iraq resorts to the path of negotiations, and there are alternative mechanisms with countries for cooperation,” noting that “there are many countries that are not cooperating for various purposes, including economic and humanitarian reasons, and sometimes the corrupt person is a refugee in those countries, so there is difficulty in extradition.”
The Iraqi government, headed by Ali Faleh al-Zaidi, had taken several measures to pursue those wanted in corruption cases and to activate judicial procedures in order to recover stolen funds inside and outside Iraq.
The Federal Integrity Commission had previously signed a cooperation agreement with the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Baghdad, allowing direct access to the Interpol information system, and encouraging national central bureaus to expand direct access to the Interpol system and access to information on wanted persons, to include agencies concerned with conducting criminal investigations in cooperation with international police in various countries.
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