Khatami handed out official state decoration & insignia illegally

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

According to Ahmadinejad's own site FARDA (named as such in order to confuse people with Radio Farda which is the Persian Broadcast of Radio Free Europe) Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, the secretary general of the tribunal of finance in a letter to various authorities has conveyed that Khatami granted many unauthorized decorations and insignia during his presidency; the letter demands that those gifts be immediately returned to the treasury. Farda's article also reports that apparently a copy of Rahimi's letter has also been sent to Khatami himself. Several of the politicians from Khatami's administration who had received these decorations are already being indicted on corruption charges.