Safa al-Safi

Safa al-Din (also Safauddin) Mohammed al-Safi is an Iraqi politician and former Justice Minister who is currently Minister of State for the Council of Representatives.

Safa al-Safi

Since May 2006 he has also been Minister of State for Council of Representatives Affairs. He became acting Justice Minister in the government of Nouri al-Maliki from April 2007.[1] He also replaced Abdul Falah al-Sudany as acting Minister of Trade in 2007 following his resignation amidst corruption allegations.

As Minister of State in September 2008, he called for MP Mithal al-Alusi to be prosecuted for "visiting a country that Iraq considers an enemy" after he visited Israel and spoke at a conference on counter-terrorism.[2]

In July 2011 the Higher Judicial Council issued an arrest warrant on allegations of corruption relating to his time as acting Trade Minister.[3] A judge in Basrah also issued a second arrest warrant for the minister on allegations of administrative and financial corruption linked to his time as acting Minister of Trade.[4]

References
  1. Maliki accepts justice ministers resignation - TV, Iraq Updates, 2007-04-06, accessed on 2008-07-21
  2. Iraq may execute MP for Israel visit, Jerusalem Post, 2008-09-22
  3. مذكرة اعتقال بحق وزيرين عراقيين سابقين (Arrest Warrants for Two Former Iraqi Ministers) (Arabic), Radio Free Iraq, 2011-07-06, translated at Inside Iraq
  4. Integrity Committee Issues Arrest Warrant on Corruption Charges, Al Fayhaa, 2011-07-20
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