Federal lawsuit targeting Kurdistan oil exports delayed again
Supreme Court gives the Iraqi PM seven weeks to sign updated pleading documents.
Iraq's Federal Supreme Court on June 27, 2018, hears a case filed by the Oil Ministry against the KRG. (Source: Federal Supreme Court media office)
BAGHDAD - A missing signature from Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi prompted Iraq’s highest court to again postpone a ruling in a landmark case by the federal government challenging the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) independent oil policy.
The lawsuit was filed by the federal government in 2012 under then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose government was at odds with the KRG over its independent crude exports and contracts with oil companies.
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