DOJ Brings Civil Forfeiture Case Against Kurdish General’s Mansion in Beverly Hills

 On April 22, 2026, the United States (U.S.) Department of Justice (DOJ) brought a civil forfeiture complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, requesting the forfeiture of a mansion situated in Beverly Hills, California, alleged to have been bought and renovated with approximately $30 million in proceeds of a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of War’s (DOW) Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), pay bribes to an official of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), and violate U.S. money laundering laws.