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A former Iraqi electricity minister found guilty of wrongfully awarding a multi-million-dollar contract was only handed a minor fine, an anti-fraud body revealed Thursday, sparking a public outcry. Louay al-Khatib was given a one-year suspended sentence and fined one million Iraqi dinars (around $685) by a Baghdad court earlier this month, according to the charge sheet seen by AFP. Three officials from the ministry were also sentenced. Iraq’s commission for transparency, which oversees corruption cases, said the four were convicted of having committed “deliberate irregularities” by awarding a …