NEW: OCCRP found irregularities and violations in an Iraqi infrastructure project aimed at building 200 new schools.
A decade — and hundreds of millions of dollars — later, officials say less than half have been completed to the government’s standards. 1/
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A decade — and hundreds of millions of dollars — later, officials say less than half have been completed to the government’s standards. 1/
occrp.org/en/investigati…
The project, launched by Iraq’s education ministry, came amid the broader failure of Iraq’s education system after years of conflict and mismanagement. 2/
More than 3.2 million Iraqi children are not attending school, according to the UN. About a third of schools run double shifts to try to ease the load. 3/
Mohamed Al-Daraji, a member of parliament who served as minister of construction and housing, called Iraq’s school-building efforts a “failure that should be studied and not be repeated.” 4/
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