NCRI – In reaction to remarks made a few days ago by regime’s MP ‘Mahmoud Sadeghi’ about the ‘astronomical salaries’ paid in the judicial branch, regime’s head of judiciary has accused Sadeghi of acting in line with the attacks made by enemies from abroad.
According to state-run IRNA news agency, Sadegh Larijani claimed on Monday April 17 that “over the past few years, the judiciary has been faced with severe attacks by enemies, and unfortunately some from inside.”
“The sad point is that some in the country are acting in line with such enemies’ attacks, jumping into the fray and raising slogans against the judiciary while deceiving and resorting to threadbare techniques”, added Larijani, while attacking the MP.
Mahmoud Sadeghi had said in parliament’s plenary session on April 10 that the judiciary has paid its employees 285 billion tomans more salaries and bonuses than lawfully allowed.
Earlier, the chairman of parliament’s planning and Budget Committee ‘Gholamreza Tajgardoon’ had also announced in an April 1 interview that according to a Court of Audit report, an entity responsible for fighting against ‘astronomical salaries’ had itself paid its employees 250 billion tomans in excess of what’s legally been approved, though he didn’t give any further details.
Court of Audit is a monitoring entity affiliated to the parliament, which monitors how government organizations spend their budgets.
The reports come at a time when, in the midst of clashes between rival bands and on the eve of regime’s presidential elections in particular, judicial authorities and entities linked to Khamenei had severely attacked Rouhani and his government over paying high salaries to government executives, vowing that a number of the executives would be dealt with.
Meanwhile, Ali Younesi, Rouhani’s special advisor on ethnic and religious minorities’ affairs, had earlier said that the disclosure of government executives’ payrolls was aimed at affecting the 2017 presidential elections.
Iranian regime’s judiciary has not yet released any report on the personal bank accounts belonging to its head.
