Iraq Lawyer Case File: Project Nikandros

This book is actually about two projects not one, Project Nikandros in the title and Project Gertrude. Both projects began in 2013 when the Plaintiff, a career Project Manager, began his search for funding in the amount of nearly $40 Million (USD) for a large capital project to transform land in the heart of the city of Sulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan which belonged to his family since the city was founded in the eighteenth century. Two investors came forward in 2013 with credible funding offers the first for $6.5Million(USD) (Project Nikandros) and the second for $5.5Million(USD) (Project Gertrude). As the two projects unfolded in parallel over the following three years, the Plaintiff had to deal with high profile players including three international banks in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, diplomats, the United Nations mission in Dubai as well as the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C,USA. By June 2016, what began as a straightforward project funding exercise has resulted in the Plaintiff instructing his attorneys Iraq Lawyer to file criminal charges against nine Defendants for breach of Article 456 of the PENAL CODE 111 of 1969 of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.