Leila Abdul Latif is an Iraqi politician who was the Minister of Labour in the Iraqi Interim Government

Iraqi Interim Government

The Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the Iraqi Transitional Government was installed following the Iraqi National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005...

 from June 2004 to May 2005. A Shiite Arab from the Banu Tamim

Banu Tamim

Banī Tamīm Tamim is one of the largest of all Arab tribes. Their history goes back to pre-Islamic times....

 tribe, she is a member of the Iraqi National Accord

Iraqi National Accord

The Iraqi National Accord known inside Iraq as Wifaq is an Iraqi political party founded by Iyad Allawi and Salah Omar Al-Ali in 1991. Al-Ali subsequently left the party after he realised the extent of Allawi's links to foreign intelligence agencies, mainly the C.I.A. and MI6.It was founded at the...

 led by Interim Prime Minister, Ayad Allawi.

She joined the Assembly of Independent Democrats

Assembly of Independent Democrats

The Assembly of Independent Democrats is an electoral coalition that participated in the January 30, 2005 National Assembly legislative election in Iraq...

 led by Adnan Pachachi

Adnan Pachachi

Adnan al-Pachachi or Adnan Muzahim Amin al-Pachachi is a veteran Iraqi politician and diplomat. Pachachi was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1959 to 1965 and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq from 1965 to 1967; he again served as Permanent Representative to the UN...

 for the Iraqi legislative election of January 2005. Partly due to a boycott of the election by most Sunni Arabs, the list won no seats.

In May 2005 the new government

Iraqi Transitional Government

The Iraqi Transitional Government was the government of Iraq from May 3rd, 2005, when it replaced the Iraqi Interim Government, until May 20th, 2006, when it was replaced by the first permanent government....

 of Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Ibrahim abd al-Karim Hamzah al-Eshaiker al-Jafari is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, following the January 2005 election. He was previously one of the two Vice-Presidents of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004...

issued arrest warrants against Abdul Latif for financial corruption and "bringing back to the government members of the former regime".

In August 2006, the independent Commission for Public Integrity filed corruption charges against Abdul Latif, before releasing her on bail. She was convicted of a minor offense and given a suspended sentence.