Baghdad court jails former MP as corruption cases widen

Shafaq News- Baghdad 

The Karkh Criminal Court in Baghdad sentenced former member ofparliament Basim Khushan in absentia to three years of rigorous imprisonmentafter convicting him of soliciting a bribe, a judicial source said on Thursday.

A court document obtained by Shafaq News stated that the sentence alsoimposed a fine of 10 million Iraqi dinars (about $7,600), with a further twoyears of rigorous imprisonment to be served consecutively if the fine is notpaid.

The conviction concerned an agreement with other defendants to solicitmoney as a bribe from a complainant in return for purported help in releasingloan funds for a real estate project at the Real Estate Bank in al-Muthannaprovince in 2024. The document confirmed the seizure of Khashan's movable andimmovable assets and the issuance of an arrest warrant against him.

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