Accountability Tracker
A living scoreboard: who signed, who exposed, who walks free, and where they are now.
The scoreboard
| Person / institution | Role in the evidence | Legal outcome | Where now |
|---|---|---|---|
Nour Zuhair Jassim | Owner of all five recipient companies; received ~43% per PM Sudani | Arrested 24 Oct 2022; bailed on settlement; sentenced in absentia 10y (Nov 2024); covered by 2025 amnesty settlement | Free, outside Iraq |
Shaker Mahmoud al-Zubaidi | Ordered BSA removal; co-mastermind (investigative assessment) | Never charged | Outside Iraq Testimony |
Osama Husam Jawdat | Signed confirmations; concealed the ban; misled the Minister | Arrested Jan 2023; sentenced 10y (14 Jan 2025) | Prison Testimony |
Samir Abdul Hadi Qasim | Circulated BSA removal; signed Phase 1–2 confirmations | Arrested Oct 2022 per press; status unconfirmed | Being verified |
GCT cheque signatories | Signed 247 cheques | Being verified — names being compiled | Being verified |
Abdul Mahdi Tawfeeq Mahdi | Frontman for three of the five companies; former Rafidain al-Wazireya branch manager | Charged; judicial status unconfirmed | — Press record |
Mohammad Falah Abdullah | Al-Qanit's authorised bank representative | Charged; at large per press reporting | — Press record |
Hussein Kawa Abdul Qadir | Frontman for Riyah Baghdad | Arrested Nov 2022 (Kurdistan region); later status unconfirmed | — Press record |
Abdul Rahman Mohammed Ibrahim | First registered director of Badiyat al-Masaa | Charged; judicial status unconfirmed | — Press record |
Moumen Abdulkareem | Documented cheque recipient | Charged; judicial status unconfirmed | — Press record |
Belal Sabah al-Hamdani | Rafidain acting DG, Mar–Dec 2021; did not report the cheque stream | Never charged | — Testimony |
Abdul Hasan Jamal | Rafidain acting DG from Dec 2021; four written AML warnings, no action | Never charged | — Testimony |
Nizar Nasser Hussein (CBI AML chief) | CBI AML office chief during the theft; no action on flagged flows | Never charged; now CBI Governor (2026) | — TestimonyPress record |
Haitham al-Jubouri | Engineered the BSA removal | Sentenced in absentia 3y (2024) | Outside Iraq |
Hadi al-Amiri | Head of Badr; political patron at the top of the protection layer | Never investigated | In office TestimonyPress record |
Badr Organisation | Political organisation identified as the scheme's protection layer | Never investigated | — TestimonyPress record |
Mohammed al-Halbousi | Parliament vote removing the acting FM, 11 Oct 2022 | Not investigated in this case; Speakership ended by court 2023 | — |
Raed Jouhi | Kadhimi office director | Sentenced in absentia 6y (Nov 2024) | Outside Iraq |
Mushriq Abbas | Kadhimi office adviser | Warrant 2023; resides in UAE per Integrity Commission | UAE |
Ahmed Najati | Kadhimi office private secretary | Warrant 2023; instrumental in the uncovering; exculpated by direct testimony | — Testimony |
Dr Ali Allawi | The minister whose ban would have stopped it | Charged 2023 → returned, demanded evidence → charges dropped | Cleared; travels freely Testimony |
Ihsan Abdul Jabbar | Commissioned the investigation | Removed by Parliament 11 Oct 2022; later warrants reported | Being verified |
The advisor to the finance minister | Uncovered and documented the theft | Left Iraq 11 Oct 2022 | Abroad Testimony |
Owner of all five recipient companies; received ~43% per PM Sudani
Arrested 24 Oct 2022; bailed on settlement; sentenced in absentia 10y (Nov 2024); covered by 2025 amnesty settlement
Free, outside Iraq
Ordered BSA removal; co-mastermind (investigative assessment)
Never charged
Outside Iraq Testimony
Signed confirmations; concealed the ban; misled the Minister
Arrested Jan 2023; sentenced 10y (14 Jan 2025)
Prison Testimony
Circulated BSA removal; signed Phase 1–2 confirmations
Arrested Oct 2022 per press; status unconfirmed
Being verified
Signed 247 cheques
Being verified — names being compiled
Being verified
Frontman for three of the five companies; former Rafidain al-Wazireya branch manager
Charged; judicial status unconfirmed
— Press record
Al-Qanit's authorised bank representative
Charged; at large per press reporting
— Press record
Frontman for Riyah Baghdad
Arrested Nov 2022 (Kurdistan region); later status unconfirmed
— Press record
First registered director of Badiyat al-Masaa
Charged; judicial status unconfirmed
— Press record
Documented cheque recipient
Charged; judicial status unconfirmed
— Press record
Rafidain acting DG, Mar–Dec 2021; did not report the cheque stream
Never charged
— Testimony
Rafidain acting DG from Dec 2021; four written AML warnings, no action
Never charged
— Testimony
CBI AML office chief during the theft; no action on flagged flows
Never charged; now CBI Governor (2026)
— TestimonyPress record
Engineered the BSA removal
Sentenced in absentia 3y (2024)
Outside Iraq
Head of Badr; political patron at the top of the protection layer
Never investigated
In office TestimonyPress record
Political organisation identified as the scheme's protection layer
Never investigated
— TestimonyPress record
Parliament vote removing the acting FM, 11 Oct 2022
Not investigated in this case; Speakership ended by court 2023
—
Kadhimi office director
Sentenced in absentia 6y (Nov 2024)
Outside Iraq
Kadhimi office adviser
Warrant 2023; resides in UAE per Integrity Commission
UAE
Kadhimi office private secretary
Warrant 2023; instrumental in the uncovering; exculpated by direct testimony
— Testimony
The minister whose ban would have stopped it
Charged 2023 → returned, demanded evidence → charges dropped
Cleared; travels freely Testimony
Commissioned the investigation
Removed by Parliament 11 Oct 2022; later warrants reported
Being verified
Uncovered and documented the theft
Left Iraq 11 Oct 2022
Abroad Testimony
The recovery ledger
Documented figures only.
Official claims only — no proof of any recovery has ever been published.
No Iraqi authority has ever published an audit, itemisation, or evidence of any recovered amount. The claimed series, recorded here strictly as official claims: IQD 182.6 billion displayed on television as a 'first tranche' (27 November 2022)Press record; a further IQD 134,455,600,000 said to be deposited at Rafidain, cumulative IQD 317,535,536,525 (Supreme Judicial Council statement, 8 December 2022)Press record; — the Council's own figures do not reconcile exactly: the announced first tranche (182.6bn) plus the second (134.456bn) totals 317.056bn, implying an unexplained ≈480 million dinar difference from its stated cumulative; recorded as claimed Press record —; '$2.6 million' (January 2023)Press record; 'around $270 million' (head of the Supreme Judicial Council, spring 2023)Press record; 'IQD 365 billion' (Supreme Judicial Council, July 2026)Press record. The claimed series is essentially flat after December 2022. The court file frames the debt as 'IQD 1.618 trillion owed by his two companies'; the documented record is that all five companies were controlled by the principal defendant through frontmen, so that perimeter understates the theft. TestimonyInvestigative assessment Everything else: unrecovered. The Cleary Gottlieb tracing assignment (10 Oct 2022) was not pursued by the incoming government. Documented
Those who signed, cleared, protected and profited were bailed, amnestied, ignored or never touched. Those who exposed the theft were removed, charged, and driven abroad. The tracker exists so this asymmetry remains documented, current, and impossible to forget. When an ethical prosecution becomes possible in Iraq, this page is its file.
The 2024 judicial crisis
Case files reportedly inaccessible with Judge Diaa Jaafar; public conflict between the judiciary and Integrity Commission head Haider Hanoun; "big names" reported vanished after bail; the judge who bailed the principal also handled — and dropped — the case against the former minister. Testimony
The US dimension
From November 2022 the advisor briefed senior US officials with the evidence. Testimony Subsequently: the Federal Reserve/Treasury restricted dozens of Iraqi banks from dollar transactions; K2 Integrity was engaged to vet CBI transfers; financier Ali Ghulam's three banks were barred and Ghulam later sanctioned — he contests the sanctions from London. The direct link between these banks and the heist proceeds is this investigation's assessment; the sanctions record is documented. Testimony
Updates
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Updated continuously. Last verified: July 2026.