By NNN-IRNA
Tehran : Iran’s Presidential Advisor for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Majid Jafarzadeh has said that the assets of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) which were seized by a French bank have been released.
Speaking to IRNA, he said that the move followed continued efforts by the Presidential Department for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Monday.
CBI assets were frozen by the Bank of French Banque Populaire.
“In the past, the US and the Zionist regime had enacted illegal laws which ran counter to international law to encourage their nationals to lodge unfounded and baseless financial charges against our country’s officials and had issued judgment by default to seize Iranian assets at foreign banks but due to hard efforts of the Iranian judiciary officials, their plots failed and resulted in the issuance of a verdict on Jan 24, 2008 that nullified all these baseless accusations and unfounded charges.”
The case is regarded as a significant achievements for Iran, Jafarzadeh said.