The Iraqi Defence Minister has denied that the country has cancelled a major arms deal with Russia. It's in response to the Prime Minister's spokesman who'd earlier said corruption concerns caused the scrapping of a deal sealed only a month ago, to sell Iraq more than 4-billion-dollars' worth of military hardware.
RT talks to government and business consultant, Christoph R. Horstel.
Iraq has cancelled a $4.2bn (£2.6bn) deal to buy arms from Russia because of concerns about "corruption", an Iraqi government advisor has said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has suspicions about corruption within his own team, his spokesman told the BBC.
The purchase - said to include attack helicopters and missiles - was only signed off in October.
Iraq has been rebuilding its armed forces since the end of US-led combat operations against insurgents.
One Russian military expert has suggested the that Iraqi authorities scuppered the Russian arms deal under pressure from Washington.
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