Corruption allegations
On 3 February 2013, then president Ahmadinejad attended a meeting in the Iranian parliament to defend one of his minister, Reza Sheykholeslam minister of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare, from impeachment. The speaker of the parliament, Majlis, was Ali Larijani and his brother Sadiq Larijani, who is the head of the judiciary in Iran. When Ahmadinejad went on podium, he accused Larijani family of gross corruption, manipulating judicial and legislative decisions in exchange for own interests. To back his accusation, Ahmadinejad then played a video in the large common screen before parliament members of Majlis while the session was on live-broadcast on the iranian national broadcasting network IRIB. In the video, covertly recorded by a mobile phone, Fazel Larijani was in a meeting with Saeed Mortazavi discussing 'solving problems' for a businessman, apparently referring to Babak Zanjani. In the conversation, Fazel Larijani had implied to Saeed Mortazavi that he could use his brothers’ (Ali and Sadegh's) influence to remove obstacles in return for involvement in some business endeavors, as, he claimed, he did it before for so many other business persons, later named in the discussion. [3] Fazel Larijani denied the allegations and told that he would file a legal complaint against Ahmadinejad and Mortazavi for “spreading lies and disturbing public opinion.” [3]
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