Former Parliament Representative Accused of Forging German Residence Documents?

Moayed Hoseini Sadr, a former parliament representative, was appointed CEO of Askotec International Holding by order of the Minister of Industry. Askotec’s headquarters is located in Germany. Hoseini Sadr has been accused of forging documents to obtain German residence.

Askotec is the most important foreign company of Iran’s Ministry of Industry, with its main office in Germany and branch offices in various countries including Germany, Italy, China, and Japan.

Moayed Hoseini Sadr is the CEO of Askotec International Holding, and his office is located in Düsseldorf, Germany.

His appointment by Reza Rahmani, Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade, has been generating news for some time.

On Moayed Hoseini Sadr’s Wikipedia page, it is stated that his appointment as CEO of Askotec International Holding was due to “the inability to maintain permanent residence in Germany, which has imposed significant costs on this Iranian company”.

The page states: “With the involvement of supervisory bodies, Hoseini Sadr was accused of tampering with and forging his employment contract. Hoseini Sadr denied these accusations in an interview.”

Now Saba Azarpik, an independent journalist in Iran, has published images on her Twitter account showing that the German translation of Moayed Hoseini Sadr’s employment contract, which was sent to the German Embassy in Iran, differs from its Persian text.

The images of documents published on Twitter, which were previously published by the IRNA news agency, show that he signed a one-year contract with the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade with a monthly salary of five thousand euros.

However, in the German translation of this contract, the contract period increased from one year to four years and the monthly salary amount increased from five thousand to six thousand seven hundred euros. Moayed Hoseini Sadr has been accused of tampering with this part of the contract to obtain German residence.

In her series of tweets about Moayed Hoseini Sadr, Saba Azarpik questioned the Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade about how he selected someone without relevant background, without relevant education, and unfamiliar with the German language (not even English) as CEO of Askotec, Iran’s wealthy steel holding in Germany, and why he remained silent despite being aware of his document forgery violation.

Moayed Hoseini Sadr has also been accused of finding a replacement for himself and, through “forgery and creating a fictitious position,” appointing Majid Mansouri Bidkani, a former representative from Lenjan, as the second CEO of Askotec “without relevant background and without language proficiency and without a work visa” to compensate for his lack of continuous presence.

Moayed Hoseini Sadr holds a PhD in Mineral Chemistry and was the representative of Khoy city in the 8th and 9th terms of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Parliament). In his personal blog, he wrote that his academic rank was promoted to associate professor at Azarbaijan Teacher Training University in 2007.

On his Instagram account, Moayed Hoseini Sadr introduces himself as a professor, and on September 21 he posted a photo of his attendance at a doctoral thesis defense session.

According to German law, applying for German residence is only possible if the applicant first permanently resides in Germany.

Furthermore, the applicant must be proficient in German at the B1 level, possess an EU Blue Card, and have at least 33 months of work experience in Germany.

If these conditions are met, a person can become a permanent resident of the country after three years of work activity in Germany and payment of retirement insurance. The spouse or life partner and children of a person who has obtained German residence are also granted legal residence permission in the country.

The German Foreign Ministry emphasizes that if an applicant forges their documents or makes an obvious attempt to deceive responsible authorities, not only will their application be rejected, but they may also be banned from entering German soil and the Schengen area.

Askotec’s public relations office in Düsseldorf, in response to a request from Deutsche Welle for an interview with the company’s CEO, verbally assured that Mr. Moayed Hoseini Sadr would respond to this request at the earliest opportunity.

Source: DW