Some teachers say billions of dollars have been transferred in banks in their names.
The petrochemical case is still making headlines as one of the biggest corruption cases in Iran in recent days, with a number of teachers saying that receipts with astronomical amounts of money were issued in their names.
On Tuesday, March 11, a number of teachers posted on Twitter their pay slips with large amounts of money for January and February 2015, stating that they were unaware of these amounts and that it was unclear why these pay slips were issued.
According to these teachers, the pay slips issued from the Education and Training website were accessible, but it is said that access to the pay slips for the months of January and February 2015 has been closed on this site.
One Twitter user wrote about this: "In the teachers' pay slips for January and February 2015, a total of several hundred million were deposited and immediately withdrawn, and currently, in the teachers' pay slip system, only access to the years 2017 and 2018 is possible."
Another user linked this issue to the Cultural Pensioners Reserve Fund case and wrote that this incident has raised suspicions of document tampering related to the "reserve fund embezzlement" incident.
The report of the parliamentary investigation committee on the Teachers' Reserve Fund was finalized in 2017, and according to parliamentarians, the fund's 13 trillion tomans of violations were confirmed, but the funds that were in the fund have not yet been returned to the teachers.
Reports indicate that a number of educators in Lorestan have also noticed changes in their January 2015 pay slips, which include amounts ranging from one to tens of billions of tomans.
The Telegram channel of Teachers for Justice, which covers news related to teachers, also reported that about 24 hours have passed since the publication of astronomical reports in various cities in Iran, but no official has yet given an explanation about this.
The issue of teachers' astronomical paychecks in 2015 has been raised just a few days after the news of the petrochemical corruption case emerged as one of the largest corruption cases in Iran. Although the initial trial announced a figure of 6.656 billion euros for the massive disruption to the country's economy, the prosecutor later changed his approach and denied this.
The Islamic Republic has repeatedly faced corruption and embezzlement cases during its 40-year rule. Corruption that sometimes first arose in the name of a solution to circumvent "sanctions" and was later revealed as a corruption and embezzlement case.
The United States has repeatedly spoken of the existence of corruption in the Iranian government, including US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who previously said in several tweets about the Islamic Republic's officials that instead of helping the people, they are involved in corruption and are spending people's wealth to support terrorists.
Source: Voice of America
