than 20,000 Assyrian had been displaced and 13 killed in Mosul as part of a pogrom in 2008, and there were rumors of Corruption in the Kurdistan government, and as finance minister he might have been aware of it, leading to speculation that he might have been killed to cover it up. However, after going missing, a new finance minister was appointed, and then shortly after being replaced he was found again in the summer of 2009, when he appeared in his palace in Ankawa in what he claimed to be a medical vacation outside the country. He stopped giving funds to Assyrian Christian Communities, causing the Chaldean Catholic Church to have significant financial issues during the financial crisis of 2007–2008, and as a result it was forced to sell land it held in the center of Baghdad. References Kurdistan Corporation Kurdistan Regional Government http://www.betnahrain.org/bbs/index.pl/noframes/read/7646 http://christianityinkurdistan.blogspot.com/2008/02/sarkis-aghajan-mamendu.html Iraqi Christians Nochiya Tribe Living people People from Erbil 1962 births Iraqi Kurdistani politicians Iraqi Assyrian politicians