RFERL:

Iran's judiciary says the former head of the country's largest state-controlled bank who fled to Canada amid a massive embezzlement case has been handed a lengthy prison sentence in absentia.

Mahmud Reza Khavari, the former head of Bank Melli Iran, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for "disrupting the economic system," Iranian news agencies cited Musa Ghazanfarabadi, head of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, as saying on December 9.

Ghazanfarabadi said Khavari had also been handed a 10-year sentence for bribery to run concurrently with the longer prison term.

Each of the charges carried a fine of $3 million, and the verdict can still be appealed.

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