Majlis evades its responsibility in fighting corruption: Iranian MP

TEHRAN, Dec. 28(MNA) – MP Ahmad Tavakkoli said the 2.6 billion dollar financial corruption constitutes examples of “fraud and forgery”. In a meeting held late on Monday at Imam Sadegh University to investigate the recent financial violations, Tavakkoli also said central bank deputy governor Hamid Pourmohammadi had said that banks’ CEOs met presidential office chairman Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaii regularly every 15 days. “Why were these meetings held?” asked Ahmad Tavakkoli, director of the Majlis Research Center. Pourmohammadi was arrested in connection to the 2.6 billion dollar financial scandal. He is now free on bail. The Bank Saderat managing director was dismissed and the Bank Melli managing director fled the country over the corruption case. Economic Affairs and Finance Minister Shamseddin Hosseini survived impeachment motion on November 1 over the fraud case. Tavakkoli said Majlis evaded its responsibility in impeaching Hosseini. The impeachment should have received votes “but it did not happen,” he lamented. Tavakkoli went on to say that the Judiciary should respond more affectively to the economic corruptions, otherwise “we’ll encounter a catastrophe.” Elsewhere in his remarks, he criticized President Ahmadinejad for appointing his son-in-law as the Standard Organization chief. “Mahdi Khorshidi has been appointed