Request to Summon Dozens of Ahmadinejad Administration Officials in Social Security Case

One of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, Saeed Mortazavi, in the case of "Social Security Organization Violations" announced that he has prepared a petition to summon one hundred managers from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government to the prosecutor's office, mentioning former board members of the Workers' Welfare Bank and companies under the Social Security Organization as among these individuals. He also stated that Saeed Mortazavi is not identifying those members of parliament who received money or gift cards from him. Khalil Bahramian, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, said on Saturday, December 13, in an interview with the state news agency IRNA that he will submit his request to the government employees' prosecutor on the following Tuesday. He added, "In total, there are more than one hundred individuals for whom I have requested the prosecutor to issue summons for all of them." Mr. Bahramian emphasized: "In this petition, I have also requested the case investigator to review the 2009 report of the parliamentary investigation committee on social security, which lists all these individuals." After the publication of the parliamentary investigation report on the Social Security Organization on December 4 of last year, in which Saeed Mortazavi was accused of extensive financial violations amounting to billions of tomans, Khalil Bahramian filed a complaint against Saeed Mortazavi, the former head of the Social Security Organization, and Babak Zanjani on behalf of about one thousand workers from factories and production companies in February 2014. Prior to that, Mustafa Torkhamdani, Alireza Daghighi, and Peyman Haj Mahmoud Attar had also filed complaints against Saeed Mortazavi on behalf of another group of workers. One of the main financial sources of the Social Security Organization is the insurance premiums of workers and employees. According to reports, on Tuesday, December 3, following Saeed Mortazavi's appearance at the prosecutor's office, a bail of two billion tomans was issued for him. Mr. Bahramian also spoke about the identification and prosecution of representatives who received gift cards from Mortazavi, stating: "Mortazavi does not identify these individuals, but we are seeking to identify representatives who received money or gift cards from Mortazavi under any title to hold them accountable." Saeed Mortazavi stated on December 3, after leaving the prosecutor's office, that during the interrogation session, he presented documents related to the payment of "approximately 200 million tomans to about one hundred members of parliament," but did not disclose the names of the representatives due to concerns that Alireza Mohajoub, the head of the parliamentary investigation committee, intends to use it for "political purposes." He also mentioned that if the judiciary deems it necessary, he will provide the list of representatives who received this money to the judicial authorities. On December 19 of last year, Mr. Mortazavi claimed in a letter to the head of the Parliament's Article 90 Commission that 285 members of the eighth parliament received gift cards and purchase vouchers from this organization. In this context, the exposure of the "transfer document" of social security companies by Mortazavi, Mohseni Ejei: The permanent disqualification ruling of Saeed Mortazavi from the judiciary was confirmed, Mortazavi: A retired judge was appointed to confirm my conviction, a bail of "two billion tomans" was issued for Saeed Mortazavi.