Chief: Judiciary Not to Tolerate Any Corruption

Date: 26 January 2018 - 21:41

News ID: ۴۹۳۴۱

TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran’s judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani warned on Thursday he would not tolerate any corruption within his ranks, threatening to publicly name any offending employee.
"I thought it would be enough to dismiss five judges breaking the law for others to become aware of their actions, but that is not the case,” he said.
Ayatollah Larijani said he was determined to publish the names and photos of offending judges and judiciary staff in the media. He said the measure aimed to "maintain the dignity and respect due to the majority of the members of the judiciary, who are clean and virtuous”.
The judiciary, he said, has had an acceptable record in cracking down on in-house graft, but more needed to be done to uproot the problem.
"Malpractice is possible across the vast judicial system, just like it is in any other system. But this does in no way implicate that the whole system is corrupt,” he said.