VOL. XLVI

No 10

10-March-2003

IRAN

Justice Department Slates Petropars Hearing For Next Iranian Year

Irans Justice Department has scheduled a court hearing for corruption charges against 13 senior Petropars officials. The official news agency IRNA said on 1 March that Abbas Ali Zare, Head of Branch 41 of the Special Court for Economic Offences, had announced that an open trial would start early in the next Iranian year, beginning 21 March, now that investigations had been completed.

The case began...