Sefati's Reply on Bank Sepah Embezzlement
September 25, 2000 - 0:0
TEHRAN Former Majlis deputy from Dezfoul, Iraj Sefati, sent a fax to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) replying to remarks by former managing director of Bank Sepah, Valiollah Seif, on the recent embezzlement at the bank. Last Wednesday, in his interview with the Persian daily Entekhab, Sefati disclosed a gigantic embezzlement at Bank Sepah. Seif denied the figure given by Sefati. In a talk to IRNA on Friday, Seif rejected statements made by Sefati, saying the final figure of the embezzlement amounted to 30 billion rials.
Iraj Sefati sent a fax to IRNA underscoring his previous remarks published in the daily Entekhab. He said with an examination conducted by an expert of Bank Sepah, one of the debit columns of the year 1999 amounted to 1,210 billion rials, illegally withdrawn from the bank. By the year 2000, with an examination of two debit columns, another 880 billion rials were also illegally withdrawn.
In three accounts in 1999 and 2000, a total of 2,090 billion rials were embezzled from the bank. Finally, he added, the remaining debits amounts to 30 billion rials.
Sefati said the statements published in the daily Entekhab on embezzlement at Bank Sepah have been quoted from various sources.
He added that linking these statements with the call for investigation of the performance of Bank Sepah aim to reduce the dire consequences of the embezzlement during the chairmanship of Seif. He also denied Seif's statements on linking the disclosure of the embezzlement to investigation into the performance of Bank Sepah and that of Dr. Sefati (brother of Iraj Sefati). He said Dr. Sefati had resigned in 1997; he had not been ousted.
Iraj Sefati sent a fax to IRNA underscoring his previous remarks published in the daily Entekhab. He said with an examination conducted by an expert of Bank Sepah, one of the debit columns of the year 1999 amounted to 1,210 billion rials, illegally withdrawn from the bank. By the year 2000, with an examination of two debit columns, another 880 billion rials were also illegally withdrawn.
In three accounts in 1999 and 2000, a total of 2,090 billion rials were embezzled from the bank. Finally, he added, the remaining debits amounts to 30 billion rials.
Sefati said the statements published in the daily Entekhab on embezzlement at Bank Sepah have been quoted from various sources.
He added that linking these statements with the call for investigation of the performance of Bank Sepah aim to reduce the dire consequences of the embezzlement during the chairmanship of Seif. He also denied Seif's statements on linking the disclosure of the embezzlement to investigation into the performance of Bank Sepah and that of Dr. Sefati (brother of Iraj Sefati). He said Dr. Sefati had resigned in 1997; he had not been ousted.