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The National (Abu Dhabi) , "first phase" follow-up · United Arab Emirates / Gulf · Iraq arrests 47 officials in pre-dawn Green Zone raid, including a deputy oil minister and thirteen MPs
PM al-Zaidi's June 29 cabinet statement in full: 'This is the first phase. The issue of corruption has not ended yet. We are continuing to fight it.' The National identifies Ibrahim al-Sumaidaie, a senior adviser to former PM al-Sudani, among those arrested, and frames the sweep as politically damaging to Sudani's Coordination Framework coalition. Notes al-Zaidi's remarks were 'broadcast at dawn Monday' , the cabinet session where he announced the operation publicly.
“Iraq PM says corruption crackdown only in 'first phase' after wave of arrests.”