The Sunday report says Parviz Kazemi was taken to Tehran’s Evin…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s official IRNA news agency says authorities have arrested the former minister of welfare and social security for financial fraud. Parviz Kazemi, former minister of welfare and social security in the first cabinet of Ahmadinejad, was detained two days ago and transferred to Tehran's Evin House of Detention on charge of causing disruption in the country's economic system, an informed judicial official told IRNA on Sunday. Kazemi resigned from his post in 2006 after nearly a year under former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over political differences. He later worked in the banking sector. In recent years, Kazemi turned into a critic of Ahmadinejad. A minister of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration has been detained over economic malfeasance charges. In September, a court sentenced Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a close ally of Ahmadinejad to six-and-a-half years in prison for plotting to commit crimes against national security, propaganda against the Islamic Republic and insulting officials.
Parviz Kazemi, former Iranian welfare minister, is arrested and transferred to Tehran's Evin Prison on charge of causing disruption in the country's economic system.