Al-Shammari, who is registered in Sweden with the surname Najah Al-Adeli, emigrated to Sweden in 2009, became a Swedish citizen in 2015, and is still officially registered as living in the Stockholm suburb of Vårby. According to Sweden's Expressen newspaper, al-Shammari and his wife were reported two weeks ago for benefits fraud after continuing to claim payments years after returning to Iraq. Neighbours who SVT visited also confirmed that al-Shammari and al-Adeli were the same person. At about 6pm on Saturday, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence posted a statement up on its Facebook page dismissing the reports as "a cheap attempt to discredit" the minister . The newspaper also claimed that the couple had claimed that their children attended a Stockholm private school.

Source: The Local November 23, 2019 09:50 UTC