High level officials of the Khomeiniist regime such as the supreme leader, president, cabinet ministers, deputy ministers, members of parliament, provincial governors, are now required to disclose their financial assets, as well as those of their spouses and children. The information, however, is being withheld from the public.
In June, a law was passed by the Islamic Parliament (Majles) mandating that regime officials must declare all of their financial and property assets, in order to better detect cases of corruption and embezzlement.
The law went into effect on September 20th, and all officials were required to prepare and release a full financial statement within a month, detailing their bank accounts, real estate holdings, investments, stocks and bonds, and debts, or risk losing their positions.
Entitled “Investigating the Property and Assets of Government Officials,” the law was expected to be applicable for 250,000 regime employees.
However, Ebrahim Raisi, the head of the regime’s judiciary, has decided to suspend the implementation of this law, and has granted regime officials a 10-day extension for completing their financial statements.
Hamid Shahriari, head of the judiciary’s statistics and information department, had originally stated that officials would first have to register their names with the office established to oversee the financial disclosures, be given an ID number, and then present their statements to the office in person.
Shahriari added that “the office has been operational for a month, but we are not putting any information on the Internet due to security concerns. All of our data is being physically stored at the judiciary’s information building in Tehran.”
Asadollah Abassi, the spokesman for Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Majles, stated that while any MP could disclose his financial information to the public if he chose to, Larijani’s office would ensure that all of the data recorded by the judiciary was kept classified and confidential.
As can be easily seen from all of this, the Iranian people are never going to see the financial statement of any single regime official, and far from being an improvement in transparency, this law is just another deceptive move by the regime to make people think they are serious about stopping corruption. If put to any use, the data acquired by the judiciary over the past month will be used as “dirt” in the intra-regime factional quarrels.
Source » thefreeiranian