According to judicial authorities, Mehdi Jahangiri, chairman of the Tourism Finance Department and vice president of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, has been arrested for corruption charges. He is the brother of Isaac Jahangiri, the first vice president.
Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ezhei, a spokesman for the judiciary on Sunday, October 16, at a press conference without mentioning Mehdi Jahangiri, said that “the judiciary has no red lines with any kind of corruption.” This authority is determined to defend the rights of the people. You can see examples of it these days. ”
Adding this point, which was recently arrested to one of the defendants for bank corruption, explained that “the Central Bank report shows that the person is related to 14 banks and receives more than 30 trillion riyals of debt, which is about 16 trillion Rial is a debts owed. It’s just one item of his work. ”
He criticized the government and banks for implicitly criticizing Mahdi Jahangiri for rendering money and added: “Whoever has this amount of bank debt, it turns out that he has used the rents, which has provided him with not one and two banks but fourteen banks. Those who know the rents are good to enter, so that the judiciary does not enter with their helpers. ”
Before him, Gholam Hossein Esmaeili, head of the Tehran Provincial Court in a conversation with the Mehr news agency, in response to a question about the alleged corruption of Mahdi Jahangiri, said that “this person was arrested in Kerman, for this reason his case was in Kerman.” He The file details were declined.
All the reactions of Isaac Jahangiri
The first vice president reacted twice after his brother’s arrest.
Isaac Jahangiri wrote on his Instagram page, Friday, “I do not have any precise information on the reason, how to arrest, charge, prosecute, and sue my brother, of course, he has no governmental responsibility or responsibility. The problem was predictable and should be waited. Hopefully, there is no political abuse and justice, corruption and the rule of law will be fulfilled for everyone alike. ”
He argued that his brother’s arrest was “foreseeable.” On Saturday, October 15, at the Rural Development Conference, he criticized the crackdown on private sector activists on the pretext of fighting corruption, saying: “There is no red line to fight corruption, and no one in this area There is no immunity, but nobody has the right to make political settlements on the pretext of combating corruption, and sovereign institutions must move within the framework of the law. ”
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The rumor of the corruption of Mehdi Jahangiri was introduced since 2011, before President Hassan Rouhani came to power.
Mahdi Jahangiri at that time was the chairman of the board of directors of the tourism bank, and rumors about the bank’s connection to the case of three thousand billion rubles. Although the central bank ordered the change of CEO and chairman of the bank’s board of directors, it denied corruption allegations.
In May of the same year, al-Assad’s site, Ahmed Tavakoli, accused Mahdi Jahangiri of rentier worship. The report said that Mahdi Jahangiri, with the help of Mashayi and Baqiyaki, managed to increase the tourism bank’s shortfall to $ 600 billion by using rent-seeking capital of 20 billion USD.
Prior to the establishment of the Tourism Bank, he was close to Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial assistant, and at that time, he founded the private investment company Cultural Heritage of Iran (Samga) and, with special support from the government of the time, succeeded in obtaining minimum financial co-operation 10 banks, financial institution and investment company.
Though the beginning of widespread and suspicious Jahangiri activities returned to sanctions, he also benefited from Iran’s nuclear deal following the victory of Hassan Rouhani, with the powers of + 1 + 5.
In a report released last year on the impact of the “Comprehensive Joint Action Plan” on foreign investment in Iran, Reuters reported that only 17 contracts were signed with private companies in Iran.
One of these contracts was the management agreement between the French hotel company AkurhTales and the Tourism Finance Group headed by Mahdi Jahangiri.
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