Who is Mohammad Bahmaei? Petrochemical Mafia Corruption Part Two
Who is Mohammad Bahmaei? Petrochemical Mafia Corruption Part Two. According to Iran Gate’s report, continuing from our previous report on Mohammad Bahmaei’s corrupt gang, the Jalayer Khalili company has several cases in the Ministry of Intelligence. In the National Drilling Company, due to a lack of liquidity, illegal projects were created by Ghorbani, the financial manager of the National Drilling Company. In one instance, 18 billion was illegally withdrawn from the National Drilling Company’s claims in the company. In another case, temporary drilling waste workers were dismissed along with their contractor, and the Marine company, owned by the Khalilis, employed new workers from the Bahmaei and Kolah Kaj families for election support in 2019.
Reza Khalili and Organized Corruptions
But should the role of Islamic Republic managers like Reza Khalili be profiteering, wealth accumulation, and playing favoritism? Did he have the slightest concern or organizational attachment to the National Oil Company, or did he and his brothers only act to amass wealth?
With recommendations from Khalili and Pak Nejad, less than two years after Mohammad Bahmaei’s employment, one of the senior oil managers’ homes in ASP was allocated to him and eventually sold to him in installments at a low price. Meanwhile, the villa No. 1083 on Dey Street, Oil Town, which is reserved for high-ranking managers of oil-rich regions, was also allocated to him at his request, with Ali Pour, the CEO of the southern oil-rich regions, generously spending at least 200 million tomans on its renovation since 2018.
As for Mohammad Bahmaei, his arrival at the National Iranian Drilling Company was solely for wealth accumulation to buy votes and form a support base for the Ramhormoz parliamentary elections and to fabricate cases against Heydar Bahmani to undermine and eliminate him from the Ramhormoz election scene.
In the most surprising appointment, Alireza Zahedzadeh Ramhormozi was appointed as the head of human resources, replacing Bani Saeed. Zahedzadeh, who until six months prior was working in operations management, transportation, housing, and sports affairs in second and third-tier positions, astonishingly and despite the presence of many experienced, educated, and elite human resources personnel, suddenly emerged in that management role, making the only motivation for drilling employees’ promotion being from Ramhormoz and part of Mohammad Bahmaei’s gang.
Corruptions in the National Drilling Company
With this appointment, Bahmaei took control of all National Drilling Company recruitments, which Bani Saeed sometimes obstructed with regulatory hurdles. Within a year, around 300 individuals from the Kolah Kaj and Bahmaei families were employed, despite the honorable Oil Minister’s directive to prohibit recruitments in this company.
Since Bahmaei and Sepahri’s entry into National Drilling and due to the mass and arbitrary appointments of the Ramhormozi, Bahmaei, and Kolah Kaj families and the dismantling of meritocracy, a wave of demotivation and disinterest has arisen among the company’s employees and experts. Thus, one must say bravo to Mohammad Bahmaei, the so-called revolutionary, and perhaps even an English infiltrator.
After reviewing the current situation, Bahmaei appoints Mohammad Reza Tahmasbi, the mastermind of the company’s embezzlements, from fluid management to commercial management and replaces him with his other associate, Pour Babaei. With this reshuffle and with the help of Veysi Ara, the Ramhormozi engineering manager who also aligns himself with Bahmaei and Maboudi, large contracts for purchasing chemicals, drilling rigs, and many goods and technical equipment for drilling rigs are assigned to their own contractors and those introduced by Khalili. Tahmasbi, in one instance, assigns a contract worth 14 billion tomans for drilling chemicals to the Khalili brothers with just three of his signatures.
Veysi Ara and Tahmasbi, leveraging their influence at Azad University, collude with Dr. Shahrouei, a university official, and in return, contracts for inspecting drilling equipment and devices are awarded to the Khuzestan Water and Power Inspection Company, owned by Dr. Shahrouei, worth several billion tomans.
Fake Doctorates of the Bahmaei Family
Mohammad Bahmaei simultaneously enrolls himself and his brother Abbas Bahmaei, a member of the Ramhormoz City Council, in a mechanical doctorate program. They did not attend any classes, and during the exam session, their absence was recorded by the exam inspector, but with Shahrouei’s intervention, the matter was concluded, and the gentlemen who never attended classes or took exams will soon receive their fake and counterfeit doctorate degrees.
Due to Bahmaei and the widespread corruption, bribery, severe incompetence, and lack of managerial ability in the National Iranian Drilling Company, where a quarter of its rigs are idle and visibly loss-making, and with very heavy debts to contractors and vendors that have not been paid even since 2016, the company is on the brink of collapse.
The special report is a series of exclusive reports by Iran Gate, obtained by informed and exclusive sources for the Iran Gate news agency.