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Rob plea to Taoiseach after 4yrs in Iraqi jail

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April 05, 2025

Construction engineer, 49, is held over €20m banking contract row

- SEAN MURPHY

Rob plea to Taoiseach after 4yrs in Iraqi jail

A MAN locked up in an Iraqi jail is desperately begging to be sent home to Ireland on the fourth anniversary of his incarceration.

Construction engineer Robert Pether, 49, was jailed in Baghdad on April 7 2021, in a €20million contract row between his Dubai-based employer and the Central Bank of Iraq.

Rob's wife and kids have campaigned tirelessly to "get him out, get him free, get him home" and said "before it's too late". In a direct message to Taoiseach Micheal Martin, Rob has today sent an appeal to the Irish Daily Star from behind bars in his military prison.

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