One executed and three sentenced to death for economic corruption

Iran Human Rights, January 29: One customs contractor has been executed for corruption and three customs employees have been sentenced to death, the judiciary said on Tuesday January 29, reported the official Iranian news agency IRNA.

Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi told reporters that three customs employees at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport and one contractor were sentenced to death for "office corruption and other economic crimes" but did not give details.

"The execution sentence for one of them has been carried out," he said, adding the three others had appealed for their sentences to be commuted to life imprisonment and that this was being studied by the judiciary authorities.

He said that "disrupting the foreign exchange, monetary or banking system" was punishable by death under Iranian law.