The second hearing of the case of the cruise company / bribe accused of 198 customs employees

According to Fars News Agency, the second hearing of the Cruise Company case was held today in Branch 4 of the Special Court for Economic Corruption, chaired by Judge Salavati.

At the beginning of the hearing, Judge Salavati asked Fooladi, the prosecutor’s representative, to take a stand and read the rest of the indictment.

Fouladi, stating that in the last session, the defendants were introduced in the case and their criminal actions were explained, said: “Today, the evidence of the appointment will be read to the defendants.”

Regarding the reasons for the appointment of the accused Nasser Abdolhosseini Sakha, CEO of Cruise Company and the third defendant in the case, the prosecutor’s representative stated: According to the confessions of defendants Mir Aghaei and Taheri, they received orders to pay gifts to the offenders from Mr. Sakha.

The prosecutor’s representative stated: Regarding the donation of a car to Karamkhani, the head of customs at Imam Khomeini Airport, the accused Ranjbar said that Karamkhani had requested a car for daily commuting, which was discussed and approved by Mr. Sakha, and a Mazda 3 car. Delivered to Karamkhani.

The prosecutor’s representative continued: Defendant Ranjbar told government employees about the annual Eids that the list of Eids was prepared every year and paid for after the approval of Mir Aghaei, the director of foreign purchases, and Mr. Sakha. Without their approval, it would not have been possible to pay gifts to the customs staff of Shahid Bandar Rajaei.

Fouladi clarified: Defendant Taheri in response to the question of who prepared the documents for the company’s foreign purchases? He said that the managers of the foreign purchasing department were preparing the documents.

He stated: Defendant Ranjbar said about the gift payment mechanism that due to the large number of appeals to the customs, gifts were paid and because the payment of gifts had become a custom, if the gift was not paid, the work of the cruise company would be done slowly. Gifts were paid in the form of gift cards, coins, cars and auto parts.

The prosecutor’s representative said: The defendant Gharib, in response to the question of which organizations’s gifts were paid? Iran Customs Valiasr St., Trade Development Support, Vanak Standard Organization, Punak Governor’s Office, Central Bank, including Currency Allocation Office, Currency Allocation Expert, Office of Regulations and Policies.

He added: The list of payment of gifts has been extracted from the company’s systems and given to the strange defendant, who has confirmed the payment of gifts to 306 people.

The prosecutor’s representative stated: The accused Ranjbar also confirmed the payment of the gift to the list of 198 employees of Kamarg.

The prosecutor’s representative continued: According to the defendants, when there was a difference in weight between the goods and the declarations at the time of customs clearance, the order to pay the gift was given.

He said: Defendant Momeni has stated in his confession that the list of gifts has existed since 1996 and the amount of gifts was determined depending on the person’s post.

He added: Defendant Momeni has stated the reason for paying the gifts to expedite the work and clearance of goods, to ignore the contradictions and to salt them.

The prosecutor’s representative stated: Gharib accused that if the gifts were not paid to different people in the offices, things would go slowly after a few months and their behavior would show that they had not received any gifts from the company and the correspondence would be delayed. In 1998, a watch was given to the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Central Branch of one of the banks as a Nowruz gift.

Fooladi stated: The strange defendant in response to the question of who performed the foreign purchase forms? He said that the company’s foreign procurement experts were doing this and that foreign companies were not aware of this. The quantity and value of the goods were determined by the managers of the company, and since 1992, there has been a procedure for forging documents for the clearance of goods.

The prosecutor’s representative stated: Gharib defendant said that Mir Aghaei had ordered him to pay a sum to the customs officer for 10 documents. The quarter coin contained hundreds of gift cards of various amounts, exquisite gifts and mobile phones. About 51 coins all spring and several half coins and quarter coins have also been given to the currency managers of the operating banks.

He continued: in the inspection of Mir Aghaei’s office, 3 seals related to a foreign company were discovered in the safe, which according to the law is in accordance with the forgery of the document, and Gharib accused said that he had seen the documents and clearance forms in Mr. Mir Aghaei Mehr’s office many times. It becomes.

The representative of the prosecutor stated: Navid Gharib has been working in the foreign purchasing unit of Cruz Company since 1995 and has been responsible for registering the company’s order since 1997.

In his confession, he stated that he did not realize until 1997 that the order registration forms were forged because before that he did not pay attention to the documents and trusted the signatures and did not interfere in the forgery.

The prosecutor’s representative stated: In the inspections of the company’s office, a check in the amount of one billion and 250 million Tomans has been issued this year in the form of a strange promise to pay for gifts.

Navid Gharib said in the confession: when the weight difference in the goods occurred at the time of clearance, the gift card was paid to the employees.

The prosecutor’s representative stated: Defendant Ranjbar has explicitly confirmed the manipulation of the forms.

At the end of this session of the court and after reading another part of the indictment by the representative of the prosecutor, Judge Salavati said: The next session of the court will be held tomorrow, the 4th of Bahman.

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