Last year on Dec. 25th the Iranian Information Ministry’s officers ambushed the building of the Tehran’s Plastics Union and arrested several staffs including two of the management board’s individual, one of which was the chairman of the Union.
The reason for this arresting were documents showing the role of the Union’s staffs on smuggling of hundreds of thousands tons of plastics materials to other countries (Click Here). The arrested individuals were sent to prison and after a month were freed by very heavy cash bails.
Since then, the Union was working under the management of the Tehran’s guild room, and the defendants’ courts is still continuing its investigations and findings. However, based on the regulations another election was setup to elect a new board of directors and inspectors. The election day is tomorrow Oct. 15th.
However, respecting this Union, the problem is that it is not an assembly of the elite industrialists and though it has the highest number of members, but, they are composed of several rustic zones that normally vote to their own fellows in the same villages. This is the problem that most industry activists that are following tomorrow’s elections are anxious about it. This anxiety is due to the fact that the unions are the most important assembly of every industrial sectors in Iran with legal powers and the possibility to challenge the officials. However, traditionally, this Union has been in the hands of the people who have migrated to Tehran from few special villages, receiving a production licence without any experience and knowledge and started to produce mainly plastics films.
Now that the arrested chairman who has given all of these licenses with huge bribes, is under the bail of the court, one of the possibilities is the lack of majorities for voting which will terminate the life of the oldest assembly of plastics producers in Iran
We have to wait and see the results of tomorrow’s elections.
Related article about “smuggling” published at PIMI news channel was: Hashemi; Trade and Production Means Corruption Here
