Mehdi Hashemi, one of the sons of the former president of Iran Akbar Hashemi RafsanjanifHe was released after spending more than seven years in a Tehran jaila local media announced on Wednesday. now 53 years oldMehdi Hashemi had been imprisoned in 2015 for “scam, embezzlement and fraud” and for cases related to national “security”.
For Mehdi Hashemi it was a “politically motivated” sentence. The Isna press agency, citing his lawyer, announced that Hashemi was released Tuesday night from Tehran’s Evin jail, where he was serving a ten-year sentence.
The prosecution had approved Hashemi’s “conditional release” mate, Isna added. Mehdi Hashemi’s name was cited in the mid-2000s in cases involving the Norwegian public group Statoil and the French Total, who were accused of having paid bribes to gain access to Iran’s hydrocarbon reserves.
Hashemi was then a senior official in the Iranian oil sector. In 2009, Mehdi Hashemi actively supported the reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hosein Moussavi. His father, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president between 1989 and 1997, was a moderate who advocated improving ties with the West. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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