Iran sentences 4 to death in biggest bank fraud case

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Iran Judiciary has handed down death sentence to four people convicted of involvement in the biggest embezzlement case in the country’s banking history.

“Four people were sentenced to death on charges of corruption on earth and disrupting the country’s economic system,” Iran’s Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei told reporters on Monday.

“The four are Mahafarid Amir-Khosravi…[the prime suspect], Behdad Behzadi, his legal advisor, Iraj Shoja, his financial solicitor and Saeed Kiani Rezazadeh, head of the Ahvaz branch of Saderat Bank,” he said.

“The president of Bank Melli branch in Kish was slapped with life imprisonment and former deputy minister Khodamorad Ahmadi was sentenced to 10 years in prison,” Mohseni-Ejei, who is also Iran’s attorney general, added.
Other defendants were handed down sentences varying from flogging to paying cash fines and being barred from public office, he said.

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  2. Diane February 24, 2013 at 9:50 am

    OK, and they say the Iranians are the bad guys, they are sure looking like the good guys today. This is how you deal with corrupt bankers. What do we do here in ‘civilized’ Europe? We reward them and punish the really productive people in society.

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