ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iraq’s integrity commission on Thursday sentenced Mohammed al-Karbouli, a member of parliament for the Sunni Azm Alliance, to two years in prison in addition to a fine after he was convicted of “soliciting a bribe in exchange for interfering in a public official matter.”

Karbouli was arrested during the initial anti-corruption operation on June 28 which saw security forces enter Baghdad’s Green Zone, detaining dozens of officials and former officials suspected of involvement in corruption cases.

The commission said that Iraq’s Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court had issued the sentence, along with a fine of ten million dinars (over $7,670), in accordance with the provisions of a 1983 law which establishes strict penalties for bribery and corruption.

The lawmaker has been convicted of demanding $50,000 from a school principal in Baghdad’s Karkh, in exchange for the MP’s interference and closure of investigative committees formed against the principal, whom Karbouli enabled to remain in his position.

Karbouli, from Anbar, has been a member of parliament since 2010 and is currently on his fourth term as a lawmaker. He has been a member of the parliament’s security and defense committee for at least two cycles.

Karbouli’s involvement in corruption cases has been a topic of discussion before the late June campaign. In May, the Iraqi judiciary reportedly called on the legislature to lift Karbouli’s parliamentary immunity so that he can be investigated for the case of which he was eventually convicted.

Azm holds 15 seats in the Iraqi parliament. In addition to Karbouli, at least three other MPs from the party have been arrested in the anti-graft campaign, as well as the party’s leader Muthanna al-Samarrai.

The government’s campaign has enjoyed broad support from the Iraqi public as well as myriad notable politicians and officials across the country, but has also drawn some criticism with some claiming that the campaign disproportionately targets Sunnis.

During an interview with the Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya in late June, Iraqi parliament speaker Haibat al-Halbousi, a Sunni, said that the legislature lifted the parliamentary immunity of a total 19 lawmakers to allow the authorities to prosecute them on corruption charges, in what he dubbed “a historic move to preserve the legislative institution.”

“There is no immunity for the corrupt, and the judicial and legal measures will be applied to all those involved in wasting public funds or stealing public funds, regardless of their title, their description, or their location,” Halbousi asserted during the interview.