Saeed Mortazavi, the notorious former Tehran prosecutor and head of the Social Security Fund, who has been recently accused of corruption by the minister of labour and other officials, announced today, December 27, that he is filing a suit against Labour Minister Ali Rabii as well as Alireza Mahjoub, the head of the committee investigating the Social Security Fund.

Mortazavi is suing Rabii and Mahjoub for “libel and defamation” and, according to Fars, he has filed the suit in the court of public servants.

According to the filed suit, Ali Rabii and Alireza Mahjoub have spoken of the sale and transfer of 138 companies in the Social Security Fund and 170 trillion rials in financial fraud, bribes paid to the national broadcasting Seda va Sima and payments to the family of one of the detainees alleged to have died under torture in Kahrizak Prison, for which Mortazavi is the prime suspect.

Mortazavi’s lawyer has referred to these instances as libel and defamation and denied the veracity of the accusations.

Saeed Mortazavi, who was dismissed from his position as the prosecutor of Tehran after the news leaked out about the detainee deaths at Kahrizak, was consistently supported by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president, and later was appointed as the head of the Social Security Fund against the angry protests of Parliament.

Radio Zamaneh