14 more arrested in bank fraud probe

Former Bank Melli chief could be extradited from Canada

AFP: Iranian officials have arrested 14 more people as part of a probe into a vast, recently uncovered bank scandal and announced they had recovered a quarter of the 1.6 billion dollars allegedly embezzled, reports said on Monday. "In the past three days, 14 more people, including bank managers and others linked to the case, have been temporarily detained," Iran's prosecutor general, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency. "Should the former Bank Melli chief fail to return to the country, the judiciary will issue a warrant for his arrest," the prosecutor general said, according to the Mehr news agency >>>

11-Oct-2011
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