Fugitive banker handed over to Iran
The arrest of the former managing director of Bank Melli could boost Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s campaign promise to reduce corruption.
A fugitive accused of involvement in the “3,000 billion toman dossier” — the biggest embezzlement case in Iran since the 1979 revolution — was handed over to Iran this week.
"The detainee, identified as 'H.S.,' was arrested by Interpol in one of the Persian Gulf states and handed over to Iran on May 7," Col. Massoud Rezvani, head of the Interpol office of the Iranian police, announced in an interview with IRNA news agency.
