Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei who has been appointed as the new head of the Islamic republic, has amassed wealth estimated at more than $100 billion. Money from oil sales has been channelled into investments in luxury British real estate, hotels in Europe and property in Dubai.

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The post links to a video. There is also a report by Bloomberg, How the Son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Built a Global Property Empire.

His financial power has embraced everything from Persian Gulf shipping to Swiss bank accounts and British luxury property worth in excess of £100 million ($138 million), say the people, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution or because they’re not authorized to speak publicly. Together, the web of firms has helped Khamenei to channel funds — by some estimates in the billions of dollars — into Western markets, despite US sanctions imposed on him in 2019.

That includes prime real estate — one house cost £33.7 million when it was bought in 2014 — in several of London’s most exclusive neighborhoods, a villa in an area dubbed the “Beverly Hills of Dubai” and upscale European hotels from Frankfurt to Mallorca. Funds for the transactions have been routed through accounts at banks in the UK, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the United Arab Emirates, according to documents seen by Bloomberg and people familiar with the matter. The funds originate primarily from Iranian oil sales, the people said …

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
    182·
    2 days ago

    So he’s a criminal billionaire real estate magnate with a little mushroom head. Iran be trolling hard. Tell me - no don’t tell me - okay tell me - is he a rapist?

    • dominic.borcea@piefed.socialEnglish
      71·
      2 days ago

      okay tell me - is he a rapist

      I mean in provinces like Sistan and Baluchestan, South Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, North Khorasan, Ardebil, Zanjan, East Azarbaijan, you have 30% of all marriages being child marriages.
      Then Golestan, Yazd, Kerman, Hormozgan, Bushehr, Khuzestan, Lorestan, Hamadan, Qazvin, Qom and West Azarbaijan with ~+20% being child marriages. The rest have like 10-19% child marriage rate.

      Only Tehran has the lowest, around 8% of marriages being child marriages.

      Oh and let’s not forget the practice of “temporary marriages”.

      ALSO: sorry for the vomit emoji, I accidentally put it there instead of my message and I don’t know how to take it out 😣 (nvm, I replaced it with a double exclamation point emoji)

    • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      2 days ago

      I mean, surely the answer is yes? There are virtually no supreme leaders who haven’t committed some form of sexual assault or power harassment in history.

      Some examples include: European monarchs, Japanese daimyo, Latin American dictators, the United States dictator, several United States presidents, probably a vast number of catholic archbishops and surely some popes, and several Islamic religious imams and ayatollahs.

      Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    If you claim to be a religious or spiritual person and you have this much money laying around not helping people, you are a lying asshole hypocrite pile of shit, just saying.

  • Greyghoster@aussie.zone
    1·
    2 days ago

    Well deserved I am sure. No wonder the locals are not happy with the economy over there but little bombing will take your mind off it.