This is an amazing story. It looks mighty familiar. From The Sunday Times March 11, 2007 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
A former Iraqi defence minister whose 10 months in office coincided with the disappearance of more than $800m (£400m) from the ministry’s coffers is living openly in Amman and London despite a warrant for his arrest.
Hazem Shaalan, a small businessman in London until Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003, rose in a year to one of the most important jobs in the interim government that ran Iraq from 2004 to 2005.
A cool $80 million a month.
He left Baghdad before the next government discovered that a fortune had been looted from his ministry’s account in what one senior investigator has called "one of the largest thefts in history".
