Police have arrested a judge at a local appellate court in northwestern Iran “exactly at the time of receiving a bribe from an economic saboteur,” a source told the official Iranian news agency, IRNA, on Sunday.
"An economic saboteur, sentenced to payment of a hefty cash fine, had come to bribe the judge in a bid to have his sentence cut," the unnamed judicial source told IRNA.
"The judge has been arrested along with two others involved in the case," he said, adding, "the two others are with the provincial judiciary intelligence department."
In December, Judiciary Head Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi said more than three dozen Iranian judges and bailiffs were arrested as part of a bribes and corruption probe into the nation's courts.
President Mohammad Khatami moved earlier in 1999 to reform the nation's courts which, like certain other government institutions, have been grappling with a rise in corruption, according to the agency – Albawaba.com
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