Last month, Zana Salih, the mayor of Iraqi Kurdistan‘s second largest city, Sulaymaniah, was arrested on corruption charges relating to the embezzlement of close to half a billion dollars. One week later he was found dead in a police cell. While the Kurdistan regional government (KRG) maintains that the mayor hanged himself, the mayor‘s wife and many members of the public believe he was killed because he had threatened to name a number of powerful corrupt officials.