Kazem “Kaz” Hamad, also known as Kadhim Malik Hamad Rabah al-Hajami or Abu Samir, got deported from Australia in mid-2023 after serving an eight-year sentence for heroin trafficking, then ran large sections of the country’s multibillion-dollar illicit tobacco trade from Iraq until Iraqi authorities arrested him in January 2026 on an Australian request and a Baghdad court sentenced him to life in July for drug importation and related organised crime offences.