The accused are businessman Babak Zanjani and two other respondents who face money laundering charges lodged in a law suit of 40,000 pages in 209 volumes of books building up the 237-page indictment.
Zanjani was jailed in 2013 when charges were brought up against him on misappropriating the bulk of a sum of 2 billion euros of the Ministry of Petroleum’s funds, said Reza Najafi, the aide to attorney general.
The main defendant had earned the money through selling oil on behalf of the ministry, he added.
He has undergone 40 sessions of interrogation, Najafi said, and 200 people were served subpoenas and questioned as informed suspects.
The two other defendants in the case are facing charges of complicity in money laundering , forging, and fraud.
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