Between theft and the drug trade .. Here the world of Iranian corrupt judges
The judiciary represents the safety bastion in the countries of the world, it is the first defender of the rights of citizens and the preserver of their lives and their money, but the Iranian judiciary is very different.
The Iranian judiciary is plagued by corruption, which is ravaging the state, absorbing the money of its people , the most dangerous one was to the head of the judiciary.
Judges, drug dealers.
Last May, the Iranian judiciary dismissed 44 judges who used their positions to circumvent the state and drug trafficking.
The newspaper "Resalat" quoted the official spokesman for the judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohsen Ajay,as saying that four Iranian judges ,violators of the law , were dismissed from the judiciary, in response to a prosecutary memorandum containing 146 violations against them indicate their involvement in exploiting the position to circumvent the state. This represented in non-payment of a loan to a bank with a value of $ 400 thousand, while the names of two of them were mentioned in the crimes of drug trafficking.
Salary scandal
Iranian authorities have arrested 13 judges on charges of financial corruption as a result of their involvement in the high salaries scandal revealed by Tehran in early July.
"133 judges have been arrested as a result of their involvement in financial corruption and the salary scandal," judicial spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ijaei said in a news conference.
Iranian media have published pay lists of some of the most prominent directors of state-owned companies, which have shown obtaining salaries and bonuses considered astronomical in a country like Iran, mostly amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, according to a New York Times report in July 2016.
The head of the judiciary is "a thief "
The case of Sadiq Larijani, head of the judiciary in Iran at the end of last year , was filled with many after reformists accused him of exploiting his position and transferring financial guarantees to his bank accounts is an example for this .
Larijani's scandal surfaced when the Iranian website Dor revealed that the chief justice had 633 personal accounts. This report was supported by the Amdnews website, which said the balances were 1,000,000 Tumans, more than $ 310 million.
This money is the value of the financial guarantees paid by the defendants, but he exploits these guarantees to bring profits for the benefit of his personal account estimated at 22 billion Toman monthly, or more than 6 million and 800 thousand dollars.
After the case was revealed, Reformist MP Mahmoud Sadeghi filed a complaint against Larijani at the Special Religious Court.
Iranian judiciary is threatened by money and sexual issues.
In January, Iran's public prosecutor Mohammad Jafari Montazeri, speaking of corruption in the judiciary, said " There are two problems threaten the Iranian judiciary, "money and sexual issues."
The Iranian prosecutor added that some judges in the state indulged in corruption after two years, and asked them to take into account some restrictions in person, according to Radio Verda.
"If the pockets of the judges are open, this matter will pose a serious risk," Jafari said, referring to the bribery case.