Nawfal Hammadi al-Sultan (al-Sultan) is designated for being a foreign person who is a current or former government official, or a person acting for or on behalf of such an official, who is responsible for or complicit in, or who has directly or indirectly engaged in, corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery. Al-Sultan is a former governor of Ninewa Province, Iraq. Following a ferry accident in Ninewa’s capital, Mosul, that killed nearly 100 people, Iraq’s parliament removed al-Sultan from office. The ferry, loaded to five times its capacity, had been carrying families to an island on the Tigris River when it sank. Iraqi authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the former governor, who fled shortly after the accident. In a letter to Members of Parliament after the ferry accident, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi accused al-Sultan of negligence and dereliction of duty, and said there was evidence the former governor was misusing funds and abusing his power. On March 27, 2019, the Ninewa investigations court said the former governor and several other officials were suspected of misusing their powers and wasting public money. Al-Sultan has faced allegations of widespread corruption since 1994. He was removed from his first post as mayor because of corruption and a conviction on smuggling charges. In 2017, the United Nations Development Program suspended reconstruction projects after multiple allegations of al-Sultan siphoning off United Nations funds. [1] [2]
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| IDENTIFYING INFORMATION | Former governor of Ninewa Province, Iraq |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23.02.1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iraq |
| NATIONALITY | Iraq |
| COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE | Iraq |
| FULL NAME | Nawfal Hammadi Al-Sultan |
| FIRST AND MIDDLE NAME(S) | Nawfal Hammadi |
| ALIASES | (1) AGUB, Nofal (2) AKOUB, Nawfel (3) AL-AKOUB, Nawfel (4) AL-SULTAN, Nofal, Hammadi (5) SULTAN ALBU HAMAD, Nofal, Hammadi (6) SULTAN YOUSEF, Nawfal, Hamadi (7) SULTAN YOUSIF ALBOHAMAD, (8) Nawful, Humadi |
| FAMILY MEMBERS | Unknown |
| FAMILY MEMBERS SUBJECT TO SANCTIONS | None |
| ESTIMATES OF ASSETS FROZEN OR CONFISCATED | Unknown |
| ESTIMATES OF ASSETS RETURNED | None |
| SANCTIONS REGIMES | US Global Magnitsky Sanctions. [1] UK Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions. [2] |
| START OF SANCTIONS | 18.07.2019 [1] 22.07.2021 [2] |