MNA Babak Zanjanis lawyer has said it is highly unlikely that the Judiciary implements the execution verdict on Babak Zanjani by March 21, the end of Iranian solar year. Rasoul Kouhpayeh told Mehr News on Tuesday that Mr. Zanjani would file papers with appeal court and had only seen the court verdict few days ago. Earlier an Oil Ministry official ...

Iran Front Page- All newspapers today continued covering the reactions to the US Senates 10-year extension of anti-Iran sanctions. Among the widely-covered remarks were those of President Hassan Rouhani who said the US should not be allowed to undermine the nuclear deal. Another top story today was the upholding of death sentence of Iranian corrupt ...

Reuters- Iran's supreme court has upheld the death penalty against Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani for corruption, the judiciary said on Saturday, a sentence critics say will mask the identity of senior officials who supported him. By his own account, Zanjani had for years helped circumvent sanctions by arranging billions of dollars of oil deals ...

MNA Judiciary spokesperson has said Semnan train crash will be seriously addressed by provincial Justice Ministry.Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony on Sunday that the government had responded timely to the event, with the Judiciary hasting to the scene by arrest of 3 possible culprits in the event; other individuals ...

The death sentence of Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani can be commuted if he cooperates by returning the money he is accused of embezzling from the state, Justice Minister Mostafa Pour Mohammadi said. Whenever we see the money back in our bank account, we will say that he has cooperated, Pour Mohammadi said, according to a report Tuesday by the ...

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Iranian billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, justice officials say. He was arrested in December 2013 after accusations that he withheld billions in oil revenue channelled through his companies. He denies the allegations. Zanjani was convicted of fraud and economic crimes, a judiciary spokesperson said ...