Abdul Wahab Mohammed Latif Al Mufti

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Abdul Wahab Mohammed Latif Al Mufti, also known as Abdul Wahab Mufti (died 1987), was an Iraqi politician. He served as the mayor of Baghdad from 1981 to 1987. He was hanged for corruption with a British company in 1987.^[1]^[2]

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↑ "Death Sentences for 5 Confirmed in Baghdad". The Los Angeles Times. February 17, 1987. Retrieved November 15, 2025. Former Mayor Abdul Wahab Mohammed Latif Al Mufti, fired last June, had accepted bribes and commissions from foreign firms since 1979 in exchange for information on projects in Iraq, INA quoted a presidential decree as saying.
↑ Coughlin, Con (2002). Saddam: The Secret Life. London, U.K.: MacMillan. pp. 220–221. ISBN 0-333-78200-3. The austerity of the mid-1980s saw Saddam revive much of the anticorruption legislation with the result that Abdul Wahab Mufti, the mayor of Baghdad, who had taken over from Khairallah Tulfah, was hanged following allegations that he had received bribes from a British company supplying Baghdad with refuse trucks and fire engines.

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[latimesobit-1] "Death Sentences for 5 Confirmed in Baghdad". The Los Angeles Times. February 17, 1987. Retrieved November 15, 2025. Former Mayor Abdul Wahab Mohammed Latif Al Mufti, fired last June, had accepted bribes and commissions from foreign firms since 1979 in exchange for information on projects in Iraq, INA quoted a presidential decree as saying.

[coughlin220-2] Coughlin, Con (2002). Saddam: The Secret Life. London, U.K.: MacMillan. pp. 220–221. ISBN 0-333-78200-3. The austerity of the mid-1980s saw Saddam revive much of the anticorruption legislation with the result that Abdul Wahab Mufti, the mayor of Baghdad, who had taken over from Khairallah Tulfah, was hanged following allegations that he had received bribes from a British company supplying Baghdad with refuse trucks and fire engines.

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