Iran Regime's Judiciary Has Been Profiting From Bank Deposits
- Saturday, 28 January 2017 21:33
NCRI - Following the clashes between regime’s rival bands over the bank accounts belonging to head of Iranian regime’s judiciary, making bank deposits and using its profit by the judiciary has been banned.
According to state-run ISNA news agency, Gholamreza Tajgardoon, head of joint commission on 2017 budget bill, spoke of a commission’s directive according to which the judiciary will be obliged to transfer all its received funds to the treasury, thus being disallowed to deposit them in banks and use their profit.
The judiciary and its head Sadegh Larijani have for years been depositing the received funds in banks instead of transferring them to the treasury, thus taking advantage of the huge profits associated with these bank deposits.
This type of plundering has not been limited to regime’s judiciary alone. “We have seen such approach being followed in some organizations and universities as well”, confesses Tajgardoon, “depositing their resources into bank accounts and using the resulting profit for administering their relevant organizations. This had also happened in government departments. The recent joint commission ruling, however, applies to all the departments operating under the judiciary or the government.”
The issue of judiciary’s bank accounts had turned into a political controversy between MPs and the judiciary in recent months.
A while ago, regime’s media reported on 63 bank accounts belonging to Sadegh Amoli Larijani with nearly 250 billion tomans in annual profit.
Afterwards, Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of regime’s parliament, asked for clarification in this regard, calling on the judiciary to make public the report of its bank accounts’ operations in the past five years.
Mahmoud Sadeghi’s remarks was faced with a backlash by Tehran’s Prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, who sent his agents to the representative’s house to arrest him overnight.
