Additional reminder: Previously on Abdi Media, I wrote that the handling of the case against the Zaviyeh Financial Group has led to the discovery of many methods of corruption and legal gaps in the country, and that addressing these issues is on the agend

**Additional Reminder:**

Previously on Abdi Media, I wrote that the handling of the case against the Zaviyeh Financial Group has led to the discovery of many methods of corruption and legal gaps in the country, and that addressing these issues is on the agenda.

Now I will point to four definitive reforms that have been implemented (other cases are not currently available for public release):

**A:** The creation of layered companies and making changes in company registrations, auditing, and inspection signatures to give a legal appearance to shell companies. Through the actions of the National Organization for Civil Registration of the country, under the supervision of the Headquarters for Coordinating the Fight against Economic Corruption and judicial orders, the necessary measures were taken to prevent the continuation of similar crimes for everyone, as I have previously written in a separate note.

(Although Dr. Amin Toyserkani, the honorable judge of the case, issued acquittals or orders to suspend prosecution for the defendant and the defendants in this regard!!)

**B:** After the issuance of powers of attorney by Mohammad Eskandarinia, residing in Australia, and Farid Bozorgmehr, residing in Canada, to two female trainee lawyers via SMS, and the subsequent filing of a judicial case against them, although this action was justified and declared without issue by the then-head of the Central Bar Association, and the investigating prosecutor also issued a lenient order to dismiss the prosecution, it led to very serious follow-ups by the Financial Intelligence Center, which I have written about in separate notes.

Recently, with increased oversight by the Financial Intelligence Center, the Bar Associations, especially the Central Bar Association, have warned respected lawyers that the practice of "obtaining electronic powers of attorney from Iranians residing abroad via SMS codes using mobile phones inside the country" can create major disciplinary and criminal problems for lawyers.

Although in a criminal case, Judge Dr. Amin Toyserkani accepted the power of attorney of another female lawyer for Mohammad Eskandarinia (known as Abou Diar al-Khuza'i) through this method and did not pay attention to the written objections of the plaintiffs regarding the violation of the Anti-Money Laundering Law and its executive bylaw.

**C:** Following judicial orders and based on the method of obtaining facilities and financial transactions of the Zaviyeh Financial Group and the Isfahan Research and Technology Fund, which I have written about in separate notes — and where the Financial Intelligence Center essentially had no oversight over these funds, and large-scale money laundering was taking place (which Judge Dr. Toyserkani did not find to be established!!) — it has been decided that the Financial Intelligence Center will exercise greater oversight.

**D:** Following the discovery of corruption in the auditing and inspection of the Zaviyeh Financial Group and the Isfahan Provincial Research and Technology Fund (whose two auditing firms fully cooperated with the investigating prosecutor), serious warnings and notices were issued by the Financial Intelligence Center to the accounting community and other centers, and special oversight was implemented to ensure maximum diligence in complying with anti-money laundering laws.

To be continued...