Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The governor of Nineveh and several senior Iraqi military figures are among the most prominent names who will be indicted by the official committee investigating the takeover of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, last year by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Asharq Al-Awsat has learned.

A source close to the investigations said the committee had now completed its inquiries and would now proceed to deliver its findings to Iraq’s legal authorities, with several of the figures investigated facing indictments over negligence or complicity in the fall of Mosul to ISIS last June.

The source said the committee had found “evidence, documents, and eyewitness testimony [linking] a number of political and military figures with the fall of Mosul,” when ISIS fighters captured the city amid little resistance from the Iraqi military and security forces.

According to the source, among the most prominent military figures indicted in the report is Lt. Gen. Farouq Al-A’araji, director of the chief-of-staff’s office of the armed forces, who is accused of not passing on a message meant for then-prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki informing him of the fall of Mosul.

He is joined by Lt. Gen. Ali Ghaidan, commander of the Iraqi Ground Forces, and Lt. Mahdi Al-Gharawi, head of the army’s Nineveh operations, who was also coordinating the activities of the police force in the province, whose capital is Mosul.

Nineveh’s governor Atheel Al-Nujaifi is also among those indicted. Nujaifi, who is a member of the Sunni-led Mutahidoun bloc in Iraq’s parliament and brother of former Iraqi parliament speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi, was sacked in May after a majority of MPs voted to dismiss him from his post.

Many cited his poor performance both before and after the fall of Mosul, and insisted that as the highest-level official in the province he had to bear responsibility for what happened in June 2014.

The source, however, did not reveal any specific charges relating to Nujaifi’s inclusion among those being investigated.

Despite completing its investigations, the source revealed the committee had not received responses from former premier Maliki, Osama Al-Nujaifi, or President of Iraqi Kurdistan Massoud Barzani. All had been contacted to provide evidence during the investigations.

This comes as Hakim Al-Zamali, the head of the investigating committee, announced in recent weeks that his team had now completed “90 percent” of their report detailing the reasons why the city fell to ISIS on June 10, 2014.

Composed of 26 MPs, the committee has spent five months completing its inquiries, conducting 100 hours of meetings and interviewing 82 persons with evidence regarding the fall of Mosul, according to Zamali.

Last year’s capture of the city by ISIS catapulted the group into the international spotlight. It now holds considerable territory in both Iraq, where Mosul has become its stronghold, and neighboring Syria, where according to one estimate it now controls half of the country’s landmass.