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Akbar Atbai Tabari
اکبر اتباعی طبری
Executive Deputy of the Judiciary
In office 14 August 2009 – 7 March 2019
Appointed by	Sadegh Larijani
Preceded by	Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Succeeded by	Ebrahim Raisi
Director General of Financial Affairs of the Judiciary
In office 2007–2009
Appointed by	Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Supreme Leader	Ali Khamenei
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Personal details
Born	Akbar Atbai Tabari (1961-02-09) 9 February 1961 Babol, Mazandaran, Iran
Education	Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Islamic Republic of Iran Army
Years of service	1983–1985
Personal life
Main interest	Architecture
Notable idea	Public management
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Twelver Shi'a
Academic background
Alma mater	Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University
Thesis	Architecture
Academic work
Discipline	Public management
Sub-discipline	Architecture
Institutions	Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University

Akbar Atbai Tabari (Persian: اکبر اتباعی طبری), (born February 9, 1961) is an Iranian politician who served as Deputy Chief of the Judiciary of Iran and a senior financial and administrative official in 2009. He was also involved in leading several bribery and money laundering networks.

Early life and education

Akbar Tabari was born on February 9, 1961, in Babol, Iran, to Iranian parents of Mazandaran origin. He came from a religious Shia family living in Mati Kola, a village in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran.

Tabari is a graduate of engineering. He also holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from Shahid Rajaee University of Tehran.

Career

Tabari was the former Director General of Finance and the former Deputy Chief of the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran, serving as the head of the Judiciary during the presidency of Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi and Sadegh Larijani, respectively. He was also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Kung Fu and Martial Arts Federation.

Arrest

Akbar Tabari was arrested by the IRGC Intelligence Organization in Amol on July 13, 2019.Tabari is named as a first-degree defendant in the indictment. In July 2019, there was a debate about corruption in the judiciary. Sadegh Larijani had supported Akbar Tabari during his 20 years in the judiciary, when he was the Director General of Financial Affairs and the Executive Deputy of the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic and was accused of several counts of bribery.On the same date, Sadegh Larijani’s office announced that “some of the accusations made against the Executive Deputy of the Presidency had previously been investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office and were proven false,” and that Larijani, who was the head of the Judiciary, had independently investigated Akbar Tabari’s accusations and “they were proven to be false.”

Trial and imprisonment

The First Trial

On June 8, 2020, the first trial of Akbar Tabari and several other defendants in collaboration with him, including Bijan Ghasemzadeh (a former media prosecutor who had issued the Telegram filter order and sentences against Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tatalo in Iran), was held, during which the prosecutor's representative accused the defendants of "forming a network of several people in bribery."

On September 12, 2020, Tabari was sentenced to 31 years in prison for “leading” a bribery network and “taking multiple bribes.” He was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for money laundering. He was also sentenced to “permanent dismissal from government service,” “seizure of assets resulting from taking bribes,” and a fine of 120 billion tomans. Akbar Tabari was released from prison in Mehr 1401 on bail of 300 billion tomans. Mohammad Ali Dadashi, Tabari’s former lawyer, said about Tabari’s case: “They told a person who could have received the death penalty but was initially imprisoned for 31 years and has now been released, that you should be grateful to your lawyer, but Tabari said that my case was not something a lawyer could solve; the advice of officials, such as Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, and the money that Rasoul Danialzadeh spent, solved my problem.

Death of girl

The body of Samane Atbaei Tabari, an anesthesiologist and daughter of Akbar Tabari, was found in a villa in Lavasan. Unofficial sources claim that she had been hanged there. Unofficial reports say that the location where the body was discovered was not a place she usually frequented. The only public comment on the matter was made by Farhad Teymurzadeh, her physician and colleague. In a message on social media, Timurzadeh wrote: "I think this incident once again showed the weakness of psychological support and the ineffective ways in which universities and families approach these issues, where censorship and deletion have replaced finding the cause.

See also

• Sadegh Larijani

External link

• Media related to Akbar Tabari at Wikimedia Commons