US Justice Department Moves to Seize Kurdish General's Beverly Hills Mansion

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to seize General Mansour Barzani’s Beverly Hills mansion, alleging it was purchased with roughly $30 million from a scheme that bribed a Virginia-based contractor (identified by contract numbers as DGCI) to secure exclusive jet-fuel deliveries to Erbil International Airport for U.S. forces; the complaint and related Kurdish documents describe inflated fuel prices and payments of $0.25 per liter in bribes between 2016 and 2020, and OCCRP reporting links the Barzani family to multiple U.S. property purchases funded through shell companies and Kurdish conglomerates involved in oil and military contracting.