The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, allegedly secured an internship for a relative of the Kurdish president, as his oil firm received expanded drilling rights in the region, according to a report by UK website iNews. Mazen Barzani – President Nechirvan Barzani’s great-nephew – was given a parliamentary internship in 2017. At the time Zahawi, who is of Iraqi Kurdish origin, was a backbench MP and an executive at Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP). The autonomous and oil-rich Iraqi Kurdistan region is of crucial interest to GKP, who own drilling rights in north east Mosul’s Shaikan oil…