Abolfazl Ziaei Behind the Scenes of Organized Corruption in the Judiciary
Abolfazl Ziaei Behind the Scenes of Organized Corruption in the Judiciary: According to Iran Gate, a while ago, the corruption case of several senior officials in the judiciary made headlines. Abolfazl Ziaei and Mohammad Javad Rashidi, two senior officials in the judiciary of the Islamic Republic, were arrested and imprisoned on charges of influence peddling, bribery, and fabricating cases by abusing their job positions. Iran Gate has managed to access the details of this case through its sources. We intend to publish these details, which include about fifty pages of interrogation documents, workflow, and other judicial stages of the case.
This corruption case implicated many lawyers and other judiciary officials, bringing up names like Abbas Iravani, one of the biggest figures in the oil and petrochemical mafia, and Mohammad Rostami Safa, one of the largest banking debtors. In this case, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, properties, and billions of tomans were seized and discovered by the judiciary’s protection and the Ministry of Intelligence. Abolfazl Ziaei threatened judges who were unwilling to cooperate with fabricated cases, and lured some of them to a villa in Lavasan, secretly filming them to force them to comply with his demands.
Members of this organized network consisted of lawyers, investigators, judges, and senior judiciary officials, with Abolfazl Ziaei, the former head of judiciary information protection in Tehran, Mohammad Javad Rashidi, former head of judiciary security protection, Parvin Ashraf Pour, head of operations protection and information of Tehran’s judiciary, Hamid Ziaei Shuja, director of the legal institute of Modiran Hafez, several lawyers including Ghazal Barkhordar and Somayeh Jahaniyan at the top.
Individuals like Mohammad Rostami Safa and Abbas Iravani, who were economic corruptors, entrusted their legal representation to Abolfazl Ziaei, so that with the connections and influence Ziaei had among investigators and judges, he could close their cases or reduce their prison sentences and fines.
This organized gang was arrested some time ago, but the details of the case, court documents, and the transcripts of Abolfazl Ziaei’s wiretaps, which show the details of the case, were never released.
However, Abolfazl Ziaei’s contacts still continue corruption and influence peddling in the judiciary. Individuals like Abbas Pouriani, deputy of the Supreme Court, Mozaffari, head of the Justice Judicial Complex, and the current deputy of the Supreme Court, Pourabdollah, former head of the Justice Judicial Complex, are still engaged in corruption in the judiciary.
