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Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Sean Gleeson +852 2829 6249 We are offering the following items: + 'Worse than a jungle': the cartel controlling Iraqi borders + 'Pyramid' of corruption pushes Iraq family to emigrate + 'I don't have money!': Iraq's graft-busting budget baroness Iraq-politics-corruption-imports,INVESTIGATION BAGHDAD Along Iraq's borders, a corrupt customs-evasion cartel is diverting billions of dollars away from state coffers to line the pockets of armed groups, political parties and crooked officials. 2,000 words by Maya Gebeily. Picture. File picture. Graphic Iraq-corruption-family-migration,FOCUS KARBALA, Iraq Hassanein Mohsen spent months protesting against corruption in Iraq. He also lodged complaints against officials. But now he is shunned as a whistleblower and sees only one way out: emigration. 750 words by Maya Gebeily. Pictures by Mohammed Sawaf. Video by Aymen Henna Iraq-politics-corruption-budget-women,PROFILE BAGHDAD Suitcases of spreadsheets are wheeled into her office, as infuriated MPs storm out. Her unmistakeable voice booms down the finance ministry hallways. Meet Taif al-Sami, Iraq's budget baroness. 800 words by Maya Gebeily. Pictures by Sabah Arar. Video by Aymen Henna afp
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2021-03-29

