
Safa al-Din (also Safauddin) Mohammed al-Safi is an
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
i politician and former Justice Minister who is currently Minister of State for the Council of Representatives.
Since May 2006 he has also been Minister of State for
Council of Representatives
The Council of Representatives (''Majlis an-nuwab''), sometimes translated as the "Chamber of Deputies", is the name given to the lower house of the Bahraini National Assembly, the national legislative body of Bahrain.
The council was created ...
Affairs. He became acting Justice Minister in the
government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government ...
of
Nouri al-Maliki
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki ( ar, نوري المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (), is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and was the prime minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and the vice presiden ...
from April 2007. 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.
[Iraq may execute MP for Israel visit]
'' Jerusalem Post'', 2008-09-22
In July 2011 the Higher Judicial Council issued an arrest warrant on allegations of corruption relating to his time as acting Trade Minister. 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.
Integrity Committee Issues Arrest Warrant on Corruption Charges
''Al Fayhaa'', 2011-07-20
References
Living people
Government ministers of Iraq
Year of birth missing (living people)
Finance ministers of Iraq
Justice ministers of Iraq
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