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Stuart W. Bowen Jr., who heads the office of the inspector general, said he expected more arrests in the case but declined to give further details to the Interior Ministry. Mr. Bowen said that in the cash economy of Iraq, where traditional investigative methods like tracing money transfers are nonexistent, tracking down fraud is challenging. Still, Mr. Bowen said out-and-out fraud was not pervasive among Americans now in Iraq, adding that many of his cases turned up in the early months after the invasion when controls were especially weak. He said that he thinks it's a few individuals who took advantage of a chaotic situation early on and it's his job to track them down and bring them to justice. Of the arrests, at least six involve people who at one time worked directly for Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary, or for outside subcontractors working for the company.