A member of Iran's parliamentary health committee, Ruhollah Aliabadi, said the panel does not know what happened to $700 million out of a $1 billion budget allocated for medicine imports. According to Aliabadi, the funds were allocated by the late Supreme Leader and the committee has demanded explanations from Iran's Food and Drug Organization.
A new accountability gap in Iran's health sector has emerged, with parliamentarian Ruhollah Aliabadi stating that $700 million of a $1 billion budget for medicine imports — allocated by the late Supreme Leader — has gone missing. Speaking after a tense meeting with Iran's Food and Drug Organization, Aliabadi said the committee does not know where the funds went and will demand explanations from the agency at its next session. The report follows a pattern of similar disclosures by Iranian officials regarding missing or unreturned state revenue; earlier this week, another parliamentary official said over $130 billion in export revenues since 2018 had not been returned to the formal economy, and previous reports have detailed billions in frozen Iranian assets being released or transferred. The Zioneer has not independently confirmed the $700 million figure, which comes from a single parliamentary source.
- DevelopingIranian MP: over $130 billion in export revenues never returned to Iran's formal economy since 2018
- StrongReuters: Over $150 billion already committed to $300 billion private Iran investment fund
- StrongReports: Funds vanish from accounts of several Iranian citizens
- StrongIran estimates $60B in frozen assets held across China, Iraq, India, others
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