[2] He joined the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in 1968 and was named undersecretary of state for Commerce.
He was fired from all his official designations in 1982 and demised to low administrative job and expelled from the party, until the 1985 when he became Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq,[3] in April, 1987 he was humiliated in a public meeting and severely dismissed for refusing to transfer a large sum of money at the demand of one of the Saddam's uncles.
[2][4] After the United States-led Invasion of Iraq in 2003, he was listed as number 45 (8 of Diamonds) on the Iraqi most-wanted playing cards.
He was peacefully detained from his house in Baghdad on April 19, 2003 by Iraqi police and handed over to the US military.
A government spokesman said his health had been deteriorating because of aging,[1] although another cited cancer as the cause of death.