Lawyer Arrested Following Complaint by Dismissed Judge Mortazavi
Mostafa Turk Hamadani, a lawyer, was sent to prison following a complaint filed by dismissed judge Saeid Mortazavi.
Before being transferred to prison, the lawyer wrote: “With the help of friends, I made every effort through legal channels to avoid prison, but it was unsuccessful, and I was forced to accept imprisonment. I wrote this so no one would think I went to prison to claim heroism. At least it’s better than being detained in a northern villa and without a mustache!”
This is an allusion to the arrest of Saeid Mortazavi in Sarkhrud, Mazandaran, which took place in May 2018.
Mostafa Turk Hamadani, a lawyer, was sentenced by the appellate court to six months in prison and 40 lashes following Mortazavi’s complaint, though his whipping sentence has been suspended for one year.
This verdict was issued in connection with Mortazavi’s complaint against Turk Hamadani on the charge of “mentioning him in an interview before his sentence was finalized.”
Following the publication of the Parliamentary Research and Inspection Report on the Social Security Organization on December 4, 2013, which accused Saeid Mortazavi of extensive financial violations amounting to billions of tomans, Mostafa Turk Hamadani, Ali Reza Daghighi, and Peyman Hajj Mahmoud Attar filed complaints against Mortazavi on behalf of a number of workers.
According to the Parliamentary Research and Inspection Report on the Social Security Organization, Saeid Mortazavi provided financial bonds and gift cards to several officials in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government and parliamentary representatives, including allocating 50 million tomans in gift cards to Mohammad Reza Rahimi, former Vice President under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The report also accused Mortazavi of selling a portion of the Social Security Investment Company’s factories, valued at over 50 trillion tomans, for one-third of the price—merely 17 trillion tomans—payable only by certified check to Babak Zanjani.
According to several parliamentary representatives and based on reports from ILNA news agency, Mortazavi issued orders to transfer 138 companies of this organization to Babak Zanjani and gave him five certified checks totaling 442 billion Japanese yen, equivalent to four million euros.
Turk Hamadani had previously stated that Mortazavi wrote these checks for two billion yen more than the amount agreed upon with Babak Zanjani and “to the detriment” of the Social Security Organization, and when questioned by the court, he said it was “a visual error.”
Source: Radio Farda
