Former Iran`s Bank Melli managing director received $3 million

TEHRAN,Feb.19(MNA)--Mah-Afarid Amir-Khosravi, who is the number one suspect in the $2.6 billion financial fraud case , defended himself during the first court session and said that he accepted some of the charges against him and rejected some of them. He also stated that more than $3 million was deposited into the account of Mahmoud Reza Khavari, the former managing director of Bank Melli Iran, who fled to Canada after the fraud case was uncovered, while he was supposed to receive $2 million to take measures to lift the company’s credit ceiling at the Central Bank of Iran.