(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - The Iranian minister of health and medical education, Saeed Namaki, claims that more than $1.3 billion earmarked for the import of medical equipment has "disappeared." He alleges that there is an entire network engaged in the theft of government funds and the price of corruption in the medical sector is about $2.3 billion. Another affair involves the disappearance of $3.5 billion from an Education Ministry employee pension fund, which led to a major cut in monthly pension payments.
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