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| Iran: $35 Billion in Oil Money Missing | |
| 2008-05-30 | |
In what appears to be the biggest case of corruption in Iran, and perhaps in the Middle East, the Tehran-based Shahab News reported that the chief auditing office of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) has revealed that close to $35 billion of oil income from the financial year 2006-07 is missing. This is a serious allegation, as this amount constitutes almost half of IranÂ’s total oil income for that year.
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| Posted by:Pappy |
| #17 The Ayatoilets promised $12000 to each family of the Lebanon city of Bint Jubeil, for restoration after the bombardment of same by Israel. Some money was handed out in cash but the transfers were halted when Iranians protested the giveaway, in context of general suffering in their own country. I suspect pure embezzlement by the Ayatollahs accurately explains the leaching. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-05-30 20:51 |
| #16 You try supporting multiple wives on an ayatollah's salary. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-05-30 19:19 |
| #15 the biggest case of corruption in Iran, and perhaps in the Middle East Credit where due, that's a tremendous achievement in the corruption league. |
| Posted by: George Smiley 2008-05-30 18:31 |
| #14 Funneling it into nuclear weapon's plant development or funding terrorist proxies? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-05-30 15:52 |
| #13 Iran: $35 Billion in Oil Money Missing Any chance the Iranian purps will get *stoned? [*with rocks?] |
| Posted by: RD 2008-05-30 13:32 |
| #12 funding terrorist groups by any chance nutjob?!!!!! |
| Posted by: Paul 2008-05-30 12:44 |
| #11 The Manhattan Project cost us about $24B in 2008 dollars. Sounds about right, especially if you factor in $$ sent to HZB & Syria. |
| Posted by: Ike 2008-05-30 09:52 |
| #10 Check dinner jacket and the Mullahs' swiss accounts. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-05-30 08:49 |
| #9 Well, that's one way to finance the Iraq War. Guerilla accountancy. It could be a beautiful thing. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-05-30 08:47 |
| #8 Must use the same audit service as PEMEX. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-30 08:39 |
| #7 I thought things like this only happened with the Illinois Toll-Way authority? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-05-30 08:10 |
| #6 So, that's how they perhaps bought off-the-shelf nukes from vlad or something??? |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-05-30 07:56 |
| #5 Yet I'm off 35 cents the bank tracks me down. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-05-30 03:23 |
| #4 Uh, uh, okay, I'm guessing this means had NO SECRETARY to do the actual hands-on $$$ calculats vv today's DHAKA CITY article. And now you know, Virgina, why America has TREAT YOUR SECRETARY TO LUNCH/ETC. Employer-Employee(s) Relations day. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-30 02:16 |
| #3 Or under the Iranian capitol. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-05-30 02:13 |
| #2 They will probably find it buried in the ground in Southern Lebanon. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-05-30 00:44 |
| #1 That'll buy a few nuke producing plants.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-05-30 00:09 |