Iran Insurance embezzlement case

Iran Insurance embezzlement
Court Supreme Court of Iran, Branch 32[1]
Decided August 24, 2014[1]
Case history
Appealed from Tehran Province Crime Court, Branch 76[2]
Court membership
Judge(s) sitting Judge Modir-Khorasani[2]
Judge Zabihizadeh[2]
Judge Mohammadi-Kashkouli[2]
Keywords

Iran Insurance embezzlement case refers to an embezzlement in government-owned Iran Insurance Company, publicized in November 2010. Key figures behind the corruption were a group of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Cabinet's statesmen known as "Fatemi Circle". The case was controversially appealled at the same time with 2011 Iranian embezzlement scandal.[2]

Convicted people

2014

On 24 August 2014, fate of 12 suspects were decided.[1]

# Name Conviction Prison Money Return (Rials) Fine (Rials) Other penalties
1 Mostafa Hamzeh-Nosi forming embezzlement network
forgery
Life sentence 33,296,089,620 64,092,179,240 banned for life from government work
2 Davoud Fahimi-Roudposhti forming embezzlement network
forgery
Life sentence 35,796,089,920 66,592,172,240 banned for life from government work
3 Badiollah Kiani forming embezzlement network
forgery
25 years 10,750,574,330 61,592,179,240 banned for life from government work
4 Jaber Abdali forming embezzlement network
forgery
15 years 18,500,000,000 37,000,000,000
5 Mohammad-Taghi Tavakkoli bribe taking 8 years 1,000,000,000 banned from government work
6 Ali Jalil bribe taking 5 years 7,000,000,000
7 Shahriar Khosravi bribe taking 9 years 5,000,000,000
8 Mahmoud Bagheri-Zamani contribution in embezzlement 1½ years 1,390,000,000 2,780,000,000
9 Iraj Abdolhamidi assisting embezzlement 1 year 135,000,000 270,000,000
10 Fariborz Farid-Danesh assisting embezzlement and forgery ½ year 980,500,000 1,861,000,000
11 Davoud Sarkhosh-Shahri bribe taking 3 years 1,700,000,000
12 Yousef-Ali Darounparvar 11 years

2015

Former First Vice President of Iran, Mohammad-Reza Rahimi was convicted of "Illegal acquisition of illicit property" and Bribe taking and was sentenced to 5 years and 91 days in prison, return of 8,500,000,000 Rials and fined 10,000,000,000 Rials.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "احکام قطعی گروهی از متهمان پرونده بیمه ایران صادر شد" (in Persian). Iranian Students News Agency. April 22, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Javadi Nobandegani, Mohammad Abbas (November 2013). "اختلاس بیمه؛ پرونده ای که خیلی ها داستانش را نمی دانند" (in Persian). Khabar Online. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  3. "Former vice president behind bars" (in Persian). Tehran Times. 16 February 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015.