For a period during 2008-2009 the Assyrian Finance minister went missing . Many people believed that he was kidnapped or the victim of assassination . Part of this speculation was due to the fact that around the same period he went missing more 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 . Later in 2010 he stopped giving funds to Assyrian Christian Communities , causing the Chaldean Catholic Church to have significant financial issues during a period where the world economy was in poor shape , and as a result they were forced to pawn land they held in the center of Baghdad
pogrom
2008 attacks on Christians in Mosul
Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo