Several top managers at Iran's Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade have been put behind bars as the nation p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Noto Sans'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #fffb01} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} increasingly discovers that rampant corruption is a major cause behind the current economic turmoil.
Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei announced that at least five top managers at the ministry were arrested — four of whom are now in custody. The arrests were apparently made in connection to vehicle import fraud and the abuse of the official rate currency offered at the lower level of 42,000 rials per US dollar.