Adnan al-Ubaidi, a Sunni Arab politician, was caught on camera in a sting in September taking the $100,000 bribe from a foreign security firm. He had been in the job only a few weeks.
“The Central Criminal Court … sentenced the deputy minister of transportation to eight years in prison in a bribery case in which he was caught red-handed,” the anti-graft agency said in a statement.
Iraqis are increasingly frustrated by what they see as endemic government corruption, which they blame for the poor state of basic services such as water and electricity.
Watchdog group Transparency International placed Iraq fifth from the bottom of its 2009 ranking of perceptions about public corruption. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has promised to crack down but only a handful of senior officials have been prosecuted for graft.
Earlier this year, former Trade Minister Abdul Falah al-Sudany was forced to resign in a scandal involving food imports and was detained while trying to leave Iraq. He denied wrongdoing and has since been released on bail.
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