After a story like this broke, it seems to me that if I were a member of Congress with a yearly published salary, the IRS would be at my doorstep in a NY minute. It would be investigating where my yearly half-a-million dollar extra income was coming from, especially if I owned and was maintaining "villas" here and there around the world on a representative's salary.
It also seems to me that this leftist MP is in a catch-22. He either didn't report his income truthfully, in which case, he's toast.
Or, if he DID report it as legal income and claims it was for "work performed" for Saddam's regime, he's toast also.
Please keep us informed if he's being investigated by your "IRS" equivalent or any other authorities, or if he's only being tried in the press.