Ashti Hawrami, Minster of Natural Resources of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), was asked by the Kurdish regional Parliament for questioning in next Monday's session regarding accusations that he anonymously bought DNO’s shares worth as much US$ 35 million.

During the investigating session, Hawrami is supposed to clarify the deals he had with the DNO and Oslo Stock Exchange which considered the deal outlawed, according to Kurdish newspaper Hawlati’s interview with Sherwan Haidary, a Kurdish MP.

DNO has being one of more than two dozen oil corporations involving in drilling oil in the Iraqi northern Kurdistan Region.