Four sentenced to death for Iranian banking scandal

Published Monday, July 30, 2012

A Tehran court has sentenced to death four people convicted in Iran's biggest-ever banking scandal, the national chief prosecutor said on Monday, according to the official news agency IRNA.

The sentences came at the end of a trial of 39 suspects that started in February. The magnitude of the scandal was estimated last year at $2.6 billion.

"According to the verdict, four people were sentence to death," chief prosecutor Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie was quoted as saying.

(AFP)

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