The US Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to seize a Beverly Hills mansion allegedly owned by Kurdish general Mansour Barzani, claiming it was purchased with $30 million in illicit funds linked to US military fuel contracts during the fight against ISIS. Prosecutors claim Barzani received bribes from a US-based contractor in exchange for exclusive fuel delivery rights at Erbil airport between 2016 and 2020, inflating costs charged to the US military. The complaint says the scheme generated hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and involved multiple companies tied to fuel logistics in Kurdistan.
The OOCRP report suggests the Beverly Hills mansion is part of a much larger portfolio of assets linked to the family in the United States. An October 2025 OCCRP investigation found that members of the Barzani family, including Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, used anonymous shell companies in Delaware and the British Virgin Islands to acquire more than $100 million worth of US properties, as well as luxury goods and Arabian horses.
