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  • Chief of Iran's Largest Bank Sacked; New Charges of Missing Oil Revenue (fled to Canada)

    10/02/2011 5:44:38 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 9 replies
    Frontline/Tehran Bureau ^ | Sept. 28, 2011
    Iran's Press TV is reporting that Mahmoud Reza Khavari, the head of Bank Melli, fled to Canada after resigning for his alleged role in the embezzlement scandal Our columnist Muhammad Sahimi compiled the following news items and commentary: The Ministry of Economic and Financial Affairs announced that several senior banking officials have been sacked in the wake of the embezzlement of close to $3 billion. According to the statement by the ministry's public relations office, Mahmoud Reza Khavari (pictured), chief operating officer of Bank Melli -- Iran's largest bank -- and Farzad Ahmadi, a member of the bank's board of...
  • Newspaper: Iraqi government may be holding missing Newsday journalists

    03/29/2003 5:22:31 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 7 replies · 195+ views
    Associated Press | March 29, 2003
    MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) -- Two Newsday journalists who disappeared from Baghdad may have been detained by Iraq's government, the newspaper's editor said Saturday. Reporter Matthew McAllester and photographer Moises Saman were last heard from Monday, and the newspaper has been unable to obtain information about their whereabouts from Iraqi officials, said editor Anthony Marro in a statement. Journalists expelled from Iraq have told Newsday that security officials on Monday came to the Baghdad hotel where they were staying and questioned reporters. Some were taken from the hotel. No one saw McAllester and Saman removed, but their room was empty...