Iran Insurance embezzlement case

Iran Insurance embezzlement case
Court	Supreme Court of Iran, Branch 32 [1]
Decided	August 24, 2014 (2014-08-24) [1]
Case history
Appealed from	Tehran Province Crime Court, Branch 76 [2]
Court membership
Judges sitting	Judge Modir-Khorasani [2] Judge Zabihizadeh [2] Judge Mohammadi-Kashkouli [2]
Keywords
Embezzlement Forgery Bribery Money laundering Acquisition of illicit property

The Iran Insurance embezzlement case refers to an embezzlement scandal within the state-owned Iran Insurance Company, publicized in November 2010. Key figures behind the scandal included a clique of statesmen within the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known as the Fatemi Circle. The case was controversially appealed at the same time with 2011 Iranian embezzlement scandal. ^[2]

Convicted people

2014

On 24 August 2014, the fate of the 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 accepting bribes and was sentenced to 5 years and 91 days in prison, ordered to return 8,500,000,000 rials and fined 10,000,000,000 rials. ^[3]

References

1. "احکام قطعی گروهی از متهمان پرونده بیمه ایران صادر شد" (in Persian). Iranian Students News Agency. April 22, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
2. 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. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015.