LONDON: Iraqi authorities say they have seized more than $120 million in cash since the start of an anti-corruption campaign launched last month.
The latest operation, on Monday, was linked to the detained former undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil Adnan Al-Jumaili and led to the seizure of $1 million and 25 billion Iraqi dinars ($19.1 million) in cash and an estimated 5 kg of gold jewelry.
The Supreme Judicial Council and Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court said that the money was found in plastic water bottles hidden in Al-Jumaili’s house in Tikrit, northwest of Baghdad, the Iraqi News Agency reported.
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The operation took the total amount of cash seized since the start of the campaign to about $121 million.
