Iranian Regime's MP: Government Subsidies Are Monopolized by a Mafia of 250
- Thursday, 15 December 2016 13:29
NCRI - Speaking about ‘justice shares’ plan, a type of subsidy which, according to regime, is aimed at reducing social class differences an helping the low-income population, a member of regime’s parliament said in an interview with regime’s TV on Sunday December 11 that “today, an undecided wealth has been formed in Iran’s economy which neither people are aware of nor is it being seriously monitored by the government.”
Mohammad-Reza Pour-Ebrahimi speaks in the interview of a plan called ‘liberalization of justice shares’ which took two years to be prepared in regime’s parliament, but was rejected due to government’s disapproval, which practically led to the continued uncertainty of justice shares.”
“Due to the very same uncertainty, people are now having sheets in hand which are of no use”, added the regime’s MP.
Pour-Ebrahimi then pointed to the corruption in the ‘Justice Shares Project’ and said that “there are a number of people who, in the name of justice shares, are non-transparently managing a large part of Iran’s economy… assets with a portfolio value of 96 thousand billion tomans are being monopolized by an economic mafia of 250 people.”
“This mafia is managing the whole assets in an extremely deplorable way, and part of the corruption in economic entities is due to the lack of supervision on the justice shares plan”, added Pour-Ebrahimi.
He added that “people have no part in justice shares; they don’t participate in the assembly, they don’t receive dividends, and are not authorized to elect the board or the CEO, either.”
“Nearly 45 million people are holding justice shares, but if you ask them which assembly they attended or which voting they took part or how much dividend they received, they have no idea”, said Pour-Ebrahimi.
It should be pointed out that the legislation to assign justice shares was approved in 2005, following which the shares have been assigned to 45 million Iranians so far.
