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NCRI –\u00a0According to a member of the Department of Combating Economic Corruption, most violations in relation to housing in natural resource lands have been committed by \u2018managers and members of Parliament\u2019. According to Tasnim news agency on Wednesday October 19, Ezzatollah Yousefian has said in a TV Program called \u2018Titr\u2019 that \u201cthere are managers in Tehran who by forming a housing co-operative have been engaged in housing by the sea in Anzali.\u201d<\/p>\n
He asked the Ministry of Agriculture to announce the names of those to whom the ministry has given building permits so that the issue be further clarified. The member of Parliament stated that \u201cthe land-use of 90 percent of the lands surrounding Tehran has been changed by housing co-operatives.\u201c He added: \u201cmost violations related to housing and land-use change of natural resource lands have been committed by managers and members of Parliament.\u201d Although he didn\u2019t reveal any names but demanded that the names of bank debtors involved in the land violations be revealed in case their verdicts are final. Yousefian added: \u201c(I know) someone who has overdue bank debts and assumes that his name will not be revealed, but he will be brought to his knees if his name is made public as a bank debtor.\u201d He then pointed to \u201csomeone with 100 billion Tomans in bank debt whose name no one knows.\u201d Member of the Department of Combating Economic Corruption also complained about banks\u2019 non-cooperation with the department and said: \u201csome banks are avoiding any possible consequences while some others have been involved in granting loans and are not putting any pressure on their debtors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yousefian added: \u201cwe have received documented reports that the banks advise their debtors to pay three or four installments so that their names be pulled out of the black list.\u201d
Also in connection with the same issue, the Secretary of the Department of Combating Economic Corruption has pointed to 100,000 billion Tomans of bank debts and said \u201cwe already know the names of big bank debtors and we will make those names public if allowed.\u201d In his interview with the News Network\u2019s \u2018Titr\u2019 program, Kazem Palizdar expressed his pleasure over the fact that the amount of 100,000 billion Tomans of bank debts has not been increased in the past few years.<\/p>\n
According to the Secretary of the Department of Combating Economic Corruption \u201c some facilities which are now turned into banks\u2019 claims were not supposed to be ever repaid.\u201d He also pointed to unlawful possession of lands later in his interview and stated that \u201chaving ten different authorized organizations in this regard is one of the judiciary\u2019s problems in dealing with this issue.\u201d Palizdar added: \u201cadministrators of rural districts, village councils, governors, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Housing Foundation, and some other ogranizations have the authority to give construction permits whereas none of them are in line with one another in this regard.\u201d He stressed on the need for a cooperation between these organizations in giving housing permits and pointed to a lack of transparency as well as a legal vacuum in regard to land-use, as two major problems in dealing with the phenomenon of unlawful possession of lands. The Secretary of the Department of Combating Economic Corruption added: \u201c we cannot deal with the constructions as it is going to have a lot of consequences, including social consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unlawful possession of lands, seas, and mountains has turned into a real challenge in Iran. Some officials and environmentalists believe that the main factors in incidence of these issues are lack of supervision on indiscriminate constructions, lack of a transparent management, wrong ways of generating revenue by municipalities and indiscriminate issuance of various permits by some organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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