scale operation at dawn in the Green Zone and several neighbourhoods in Baghdad, security source says.
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Several Iraqi politicians, lawmakers and officials have been arrested on corruption charges, Iraqi state-run media report.
Among the suspects detained on Sunday during dawn raids conducted by elite security forces in the capital, Baghdad, were officials whose names were mentioned in confessions.
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Also arrested were members of parliament “whose immunity had been lifted”, a security source told the Iraqi News Agency. The arrests were made as part of a wider anticorruption crackdown reportedly ordered by Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi.
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There has been no official statement from the Iraqi government or security forces about the arrests, but a member of the Al-Azm Alliance, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Al Jazeera that Muthanna al-Samarrai, the head of the alliance, was detained.
His office manager was also arrested during a raid on al-Samarrai’s residence inside Baghdad’s Green Zone.
Arrests were carried out by the Counter Terrorism Service and were based on statements provided by Adnan al-Jumaili, deputy oil minister, after his arrest last month on corruption charges, a source said.
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