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Iran to assemble group and send to Canada for arresting Mahmoud Reza Khavari ex-head of Bank Melli Iran.

Hmmmm....It's not exactly what i would call living in hiding.

Iran to assemble group and send to Canada for arresting Mahmoud Reza Khavari ex-head of Bank Melli Iran. (Taz).

A special group of police officers will be assembled and sent to Canada for searching and arresting the former head of Bank Melli Iran, Mahmoud Reza Khavari, deputy chief of Iranian police, Ahmadreza Radan said, newspaper "Iran" reported on Jan. 6.

"Iranian police asked the Canadian police to arrest Khavari as soon as he's spotted, and return him to Iran, however Canadian officials said Khavari is not in Canada," Radan said.

"After that, we asked to allow us one week to search for him in Canada. Currently, we're negotiating this with the Canadian side."

The fraud case originally started in 2007 by Iranian Amir Mansour Arya Investment Company, and progressed in 2010 after some Iranian major banks, including Bank Saderat and Bank Melli, issued loans for the company.

Iranian officials said at the time that the case involved the use of fraudulent documents to obtain credit for this investment company, one of the country's top financial institutions.

The company used them to purchase assets such as state-owned companies.

In 2012, the $3 billion fraud case led to investigation, which had many Saderat Bank officials arrested. At the time, Khavari was the head of Bank Melli Iran, and was reportedly involved in the fraud case.

In Autumn of 2012, Khavari, who has a dual Iranian-Canadian citizenship, escaped to Canada. Iran requested Interpol to announce an international search for Khavari.

In June of 2o12, Fars news agency reported that Interpol placed Khavari on its Red Notice Wanted list.

Related: Interpol announces international search for Iran’s former Melli Bank chief Mahmoud Reza Khavari.

Greek Cyprus police alert Interpol over 'British girl Madeleine McCann sighting'

Greek Cyprus police alert Interpol over 'British girl Madeleine McCann sighting'.(HD). Greek Cyprus police said on Sunday they had alerted Interpol over a possible sighting of missing British girl Madeleine McCann in the holiday resort of Ayia Napa. Police spokesman Andreas Angelides told AFP that a Briton informed police he had "seen a girl who looked like Madeleine with a British couple as one of their three children".

He said this information was given to police on February 20 and they passed it on to the European authorities.
"We asked Interpol to also look into the matter," Angelides said, but added that the family in question had most probably left Cyprus. Earlier in February police had received a complaint against the same family alleging they had left their rented flat stealing various items from it.

Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished from her Portuguese holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in 2007.Since her disappearance officials have issued digital images of what Madeleine might look like today as her parents Gerry and Kate have never given up the search. Her disappearance triggered a worldwide search but her whereabouts remain a mystery.Read the full story here.

Interpol announces international search for Iran’s former Melli Bank chief Mahmoud Reza Khavari.

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Interpol announces international search for Iran’s former Melli Bank chief Mahmoud Reza Khavari.(TI).Interpol has announced an international search for Iran's former Melli Bank chief, charged on a fraud, a statement on the agency's official website said. Iran requested Interpol to announce an international search for Mahmoud Reza Khavari accusing him of participation in $3 billion worth bank fraud. In autumn last year, Mahmoud Khavari escaped to Canada. He has dual Iranian-Canadian citizenship. Last year Iran unveiled a $3 billion worth fraud in Iran's Saderat bank leading to detention of a number of bank officials. Back then Khavari headed the bank.Read the full story here.

Related: July 2012 - Iran Sentences 4 Suspects to Death for $2.6bln bank embezzlement, main suspect is fugitive in Canada.

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• Canada: Man With Ties to Blacklisted Iranian Bank, Lives the ‘High Life’.(Vinienco).An Iranian banker who resigned and fled to Toronto amid a multi-billion dollar embezzlement scandal also has ties to a bank blacklisted by the UN Security Council, which alleges the bank has financed Iran’s nuclear missile activities.Iranian-Canadian Mahmoud Reza Khavari is a former top official and board member at Bank Sepah, according to his resume. The Iranian bank was blacklisted by the UN in 2007 for allegedly providing support to the country’s Aerospace Industries Organization and other firms known to help spread weapons of mass destruction.If Khavari were on American soil, he could, under that country’s domestic law, be arrested and questioned about his leadership role at the bank, according to a former U.S. Treasury Department official.Here in Canada, the scandal-plagued banker has owned property for at least a decade and is now believed to be staying at his $3 million home in the affluent Bridle Path neighborhood.Bank Sepah is not named on Canada’s domestic blacklist, but Bank Melli — the state-owned financial institution Khavari was managing director of until last week — is listed as an organization that could or does contribute to Iran’s nuclear activities.Canadian officials are not commenting on the issue.Khavari resigned from his post at Bank Melli and fled Iran amid allegations by Iranian officials that he played a key role in what is described as the largest embezzlement in the country’s history. No charges have been laid against Khavari, but prosecutors are seeking to question him about his involvement.Bank Sepah was blacklisted by the U.S. government in 2007 for allegedly being the “financial linchpin” of Iran’s missile procurement network. The bank’s U.S. assets were frozen and the American government made it illegal for its citizens to do business with Bank Sepah.“Under U.S. law, doing business with Banks Sepah and Melli is akin to doing business with Osama bin Laden, or any other recognized terrorist organization,” said Avi Jorisch, a former policy adviser with the U.S. Treasury Department’s office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.“If he was here in the United States, the government would have full authority to arrest Mr. Khavari for his leadership role at two financial institutions that have been blacklisted for proliferating weapons of mass destruction and facilitating terrorism,” said Jorisch, who founded the Red Cell Intelligence Group, a consulting and training firm that specializes in national security issues.U.S. officials have said that since at least 2000, Bank Sepah had been providing a variety of critical financial services to Iran’s missile industry.Khavari was chairman of Bank Sepah’s board of directors from December 2003 until at least March 2005 and held a variety of other roles prior to that, according to the bank’s annual reports and his resume.Payam Akhavan, professor of law at McGill University and an expert on his native Iran, said it is a security concern when people with ties to blacklisted banks want to come to Canada.“For several years we have expressed concerns to the government about the presence and influence of Iranian officials, many of whom like to make Canada their home,” Akhavan said.“My fear is that this discovery is only the tip of the iceberg. Do we want Canada to become known as the investment destination of corrupt and abusive regimes like Iran?”Khavari flew to Canada last week after resigning from his post at Bank Melli, Iran’s largest state-owned bank.In his resignation letter, Khavari, who had been with the bank since 2009, blamed another bank as the source of the fraud and said he resigned “to respect public opinion,” according to the state-run Mehr News Agency.A statement released by Bank Melli said Khavari would be in Canada for one day on business and was expected back in Iran last Thursday. Mehr reported that he did not arrive on his scheduled flight.Toronto property records in Khavari’s name date back to 2001, when he took out a mortgage for a $615,000 property on Elmwood Ave., in North York, with his spouse. At one time, Khavari owned a Toronto-based company called Soaring Properties, formerly known as Soaring Travel.A Bridle Path house on Suncrest Dr. is still registered in Khavari’s name and was bought for $2.93 million in 2007.A man wearing a tie and jacket sat in a car parked outside the house on Wednesday, blocking the entrance to the driveway. He said Khavari was unlikely to speak about the embezzlement allegations or his involvement with Bank Sepah. The banker did not respond to repeated messages left at the house.The Canadian government has no extradition treaty with Iran and cannot legally extradite people who are likely to face the death penalty or torture.“If he goes back to Iran, his life will be in danger,” said Morteza Abdolalian, an Iranian-Canadian blogger and journalist who lives in Oakville.“Whether he was involved in this great embezzlement is in question. He has to come out and speak about the situation. If he doesn’t speak out, it will remain a secret and people will point fingers at him.”Read the full story here.  

Interpol And Swedish Authorities Help Saudi Arabia Hunt Down Woman Who Converted From Islam To Christianity

Interpol And Swedish Authorities Help Saudi Arabia Hunt Down Woman Who Converted From Islam To Christianity.HT: InfidelBloggers.From Continental News: Since late July Saudi media have been buzzing with reports that a 28-year-old Saudi woman has embraced Christianity and fled the country, staying initially in a church in Lebanon before moving on to Sweden.
According to the Saudi Gazette, the woman, Maryam, appeared on an Arabic TV channel saying she was tired of performing prayers and fasting during Ramadan — rituals that never brought her any benefit.

She also criticised Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. She claimed to have been converted through a dream and said that though she was raised to hate Judaism and Christianity she has come to love those religions since finding peace in Christianity. 

 The woman’s father said his daughter was working in an insurance company in Al-Khobar (in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province) when her boss, a Lebanese Christian man, influenced her and ultimately encouraged her to leave Islam. According to Saudi investigators, a second man, a Saudi national, helped the woman obtain false documents and leave the country. The woman’s family have pressed charges against the two men because apostasy (leaving Islam) is an Islamic capital offence and a Saudi woman is not allowed to get a passport without the permission of her male guardian.
The men will face court on Saturday 15 September. Prosecuting lawyer, Humood Al-Khaldi, said that whilst the penalty in Islam of death for apostasy is clear, ‘the roles played by the two men, the Saudi and Lebanese, in making the girl become Christian should be taken into consideration’. He said ‘the court should make sure first that the girl was coerced into converting to Christianity and fleeing the country’. According to Gulf News, ‘Most Saudis reacting to the Khobar woman saga . . . have been calling for stringent action against the Lebanese and Saudi nationals for their alleged roles in the case, claiming that they were “well aware of the consequences of their act”.’ [...] On 2 September the Saudi Gazette reported that ‘Interpol is co-ordinating with the Saudi Embassy in Stockholm and Swedish authorities to return the girl to her homeland before her “kidnappers” move her to another country.’ The embassy reportedly has started a search for the woman, with the aid of Swedish authorities.Read the full story here.

Iran Urges Canada to Repatriate Fugitive Banker .

Iran Urges Canada to Repatriate Fugitive Banker.(Fars).Speaking to reporters here in Tehran on Tuesday, Mehman-Parast said that Tehran has taken action through different channels to return the former Iranian Bank Melli chief, who fled from Iran to Canada during an embezzlement scandal, and has summoned Canada's charge d'affaires in Tehran to the same end.
He said that the Iranian foreign ministry is in contact with the Canadian embassy in Tehran, while Iran's embassy in Ottawa has taken some necessary measures to arrange a meeting with Khavari to pave the ground for his return to Iran, but Khavari has refused to come to the session. He pointed to Khavari's dual Iranian-Canadian citizenship, and noted, "We do not recognize dual citizenship and the Canadian government is required to repatriate Khavari to Iran." Meantime, Iran's judiciary officials said that Interpol has placed the former Iranian banker on its Red Notice Wanted list and issued the verdict to prosecute Khavari.
Khavari, who has been a dual Iranian-Canadian citizen since 2005, left Iran in September 2011 as prosecutors in Tehran announced they wanted to question him in connection with a $2.6-billion embezzlement scandal. Iran has so far arrested and tied tens of suspects over a $2.6 billion bank corruption which was described as Iran's biggest case of embezzlement ever. The embezzlement case started in 2007 by Amir Mansour Arya Investment Group of companies, headed by Amir Mansour Khosravi, founder of private Arya Bank, and progressed in 2010 after some Iranian major banks, including Bank Saderat and Bank Melli, issued loans for the company. Iranian officials say that the case involved the use of fraudulent documents to obtain credit for this investment company. The company used them to purchase assets such as state-owned companies.Read the full story here.

Interpol "Sharia Law enforcer"?Saudis Use Interpol to Have Journalist Arrested for Criticizing Muhammad.

Interpol "Sharia Law enforcer"?Saudis Use Interpol to Have Journalist Arrested for Criticizing Muhammad.(Guardian).Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization) is a worldwide network of police departments established to help countries capture criminals who cross borders. Saudi Arabia recently used an Interpol alert to have Hamza Kashgari arrested in Malaysia, where he fled for his life after Saudis began calling for his death. By helping the Saudis capture Kashgari, Interpol has become an international Sharia enforcement unit. People who flee the Muslim world to escape punishment can now be rounded up by Interpol and returned to their countries to face Islamic penalties for apostasy, criticizing Muhammad, etc.
Interpol has been accused of abusing its powers after Saudi Arabia used the organisation's red notice system to get a journalist arrested in Malaysia for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
Police in Kuala Lumpur said Hamza Kashgari, 23, was detained at the airport "following a request made to us by Interpol" the international police cooperation agency, on behalf of the Saudi authorities.
Kashgari, a newspaper columnist, fled Saudi Arabia after posting a tweet on the prophet's birthday that sparked more than 30,000 responses and several death threats. The posting, which was later deleted, read: "I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don't understand about you … I will not pray for you."
More than 13,000 people joined a Facebook page titled "The Saudi People Demand the Execution of Hamza Kashgari".
Kashgari's detention has triggered criticism by human rights groups of Malaysia's decision to arrest the journalist and of Interpol's cooperation in the process.
Jago Russell, the chief executive of the British charity Fair Trials International, which has campaigned against the blanket enforcement of Interpol red notices, said: "Interpol should be playing no part in Saudi Arabia's pursuit of Hamza Kashgari, however unwise his comments on Twitter.
"If an Interpol red notice is the reason for his arrest and detention it would be a serious abuse of this powerful international body that is supposed to respect basic human rights (including to peaceful free speech) and to be barred from any involvement in religious or political cases."
He called on Interpol to stand by its obligations to fundamental human rights and "to comply with its obligation not to play any part in this case, which is clearly of a religious nature".Read the full story here.