AFP: the brother of Iran’s President arrested for alleged financial crimes
What episodes were imputed to the Hossein Fereydoon, not specified.
TASS, July 16. Brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Hossein Fereydoon was arrested and charged with financial crimes.
On that Sunday reported the Agency France-Presse, with reference to the representative of the court.
Other details are not given.
At the end of January this year it became known that Hossein Fereydoon suspected of involvement in a major financial fraud. After the victory of Rouhani in the presidential elections of 2013, Fereydoon became his personal Advisor and special envoy at Geneva talks on the Iranian nuclear program. However, about the middle of last year, the name of Hossein Fereydoon ceased to be mentioned in the news, it completely disappeared into the shadows.