Tehran Representative Requests Report on Personal Accounts of Judiciary Chief

Mahmoud Sadeghi, a representative from Tehran in the 10th Parliament, on Tuesday requested that Sadegh Larijani, the Chief of the Judiciary, provide a report on his personal accounts in response to a published report about them for transparency. According to Tasnim, Mahmoud Sadeghi, in a verbal notice to the Minister of Economy and Finance during a public session of Parliament, pointed out that rumors about the opening of multiple personal accounts by the Judiciary Chief have circulated in recent days on social media, stating that this news has led to misuse by foreign media. Sadeghi referred to reports recently published regarding the existence of '63 personal accounts of Sadegh Larijani' on social media. These reports indicated that managers at Bank Melli Iran had provided a report on these accounts to Ali Tayebnia, the Minister of Economy and Finance. The reports specified that the annual interest from these accounts is '250 billion tomans, which amounts to approximately 20 billion tomans monthly paid to him.' Meanwhile, Mahmoud Sadeghi stated on Tuesday that Ali Tayebnia, the Minister of Economy and Finance, denied these reports in an interview, declaring that for the past 20 years, accounts have been opened for the Judiciary as deposits in coordination with the General Treasury and in accordance with legal limits. Sadeghi emphasized that he questions what Tayebnia meant by legal limits and religious standards and under which law these funds should be deposited into personal accounts. The Tehran representative insisted on the existence of religious standards that justify the appropriation of these funds and the resulting profits. He requested that the Judiciary Chief provide a report on the performance of these accounts over the past five years to prevent foreign exploitation and clarify the issues. Ali Tayebnia stated last week that the reports regarding the Judiciary's bank accounts attributed to the Chief of the Judiciary are incorrect and that these accounts have been related to the Judiciary for the past twenty years. In an interview with state television, he added that for the past 20 years, amounts have been deposited in the banking system for the Judiciary in accordance with legal limits and religious standards, coordinated with the General Treasury and the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He further stated that the profits from these amounts have been used solely for certain specified expenses within the Judiciary. Tayebnia also mentioned that 'therefore, the funds obtained from the profits of the amounts deposited by the Judiciary in banks have been coordinated with institutions such as the General Treasury and the Central Bank, and thus the information published on some websites in this regard is incorrect.'