Iran sentences four people to death for bank fraud

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Iran_sentences_four_people_to_death_for_bank_fraud.html?cid=33210880

Jul 30, 2012 - 15:12 Iran sentences four people to death for bank fraud
By Yeganeh Torbati

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian court has sentenced four people to death for a billion-dollar bank fraud that tainted the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state media reported on Monday.

Iranians, hit by sanctions and soaring inflation, were shocked by the scale of the $2.6 billion bank loan embezzlement that was exposed last year and by allegations it was carried out by people close to the political elite or with their assent.

Of the thirty-nine people tried for the fraud - the biggest in the Islamic Republic's history - four were sentenced to hang, the IRNA state news agency reported.

Two people were sentenced to life and others received jail sentences of up to 25 years, Mohseni-Ejei said. In addition to jail time, some were sentenced to flogging, ordered to pay fines and banned from government jobs.

[HopeHoops]

1. Shit. And we can't even get our banksters to do community service for their crimes.

[Drale]

2. Yeah it was these four guys who "tainted the government of President

Mahmound Ahmadinejad" it was this one event and not the years of corruption or religious dictatorship, it was this one event.

[Trillo]

3. I can't stand banksters.

I don't like they way they dress. I don't like the way they act. I don't like the looks of their buildings. I don't like that our own government seems to have forced our citizens to have bank accounts, and that seems to be because banksters run everything, including our government. I don't like what I'm reading about banksters criminality.

But I'm still against the death penalty for any human. Kill the corporation!

After reading this story, I find myself asking if this is why Iran appears to be hated. Is the nuclear issue is just the current red herring being floated by those looking for any possible reason to go to war?

[99Forever]

4. No wonder the 1%er scum..

... is beating the war drum to start a killing spree in Iran. How dare they stand up to the sociopaths. Better nuke 'em for their insolence.

[hifiguy]

5. An excellent object lesson, I should think. nt

[lindysalsagal]

6. Ah-Venice. In the good old days.

Thieves were just taken out and killed. Really cut down on the lying.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

7. I hate when there's a decent argument made for the death penalty...

But I will stick to my opposition of it.

[lastlib]

8. Hey, I think they're on to something.........

Take heed, Wall Street!