Reza Dolatabadi, the CEO of Mellat Bank, who first became the president of Bank Tejarat in 2013 during Rouhani’s administration and was introduced as a permanent face of Iran’s banking system last year, was gassed on December 29, while he had started a legal investigation regarding Shamkhani’s family financial corruption.
Four weeks ago, Dolatabadi started working on this case directly since he was informed “the judicial investigator, ordered by Aejeyee, has banned the prosecution based on Mellat bank’s complain and
issued an order to lift the seizure of the ship belonging to Ali Shamkhani’s son, and Bank Mellat demanding about 2,000 billion tomans for his unpaid dues, had no way out.” Following Dolatabadi’s direct involvement in this case and his attempt to expose the Shamkhani family, he was murdered in his private villa and his body was buried without any autopsy or further investigation.
Following Hassan Rouhani’s attempt to return to the top of the regime pyramid and have a share of power in the post-Khamenei period, Amir Fakhravar, the president of the Iranian National Congress, predicted that the conflict among the regime’s mafia families would increase.
