We hear news almost every day in the media about various scams; scams that have developed with the advancement of technology and are increasing in diversity, and have almost no restrictions in various markets and occur in all kinds of markets. These scams have led to the creation of numerous cases with many complainants, which the judiciary now refers to as “multi-complainant cases”.

Overall, by reviewing the 52 cases of fraud, we can divide them into different categories. These include fraud in the automotive industry, gold and currency, banking and investment, real estate, and pre-selling consumer goods. Ultimately, dealing with these cases in the judicial system has caused confusion for hundreds of thousands of families and has affected millions of people with legal consequences. Interestingly, both old cases in these areas, such as the “Negin Gharb” case in real estate, and recent cases like “Kourosh Company” in the mobile phone industry, usually do not reach any clear conclusions and will not. The public will only see a group of victims gathering in front of the judicial system, holding placards as a sign of protest, and occasionally getting into conflicts with law enforcement for being considered illegal gatherings. In the end, the winners of this game are the same dishonorable fraudsters who have caused such conditions to arise.

In some cases, the work goes on to the point where the first person of the system – meaning Ali Khamenei – is forced to publicly comment and give orders on these cases – such as the case of the Sarmayeh coin, where no specific and clear action has been taken regarding the 6,000 victims of this case. In the midst of this, the question arises whether the individuals involved in these cases are the main players in this Ponzi scheme and fraud, or whether there are hidden actors behind the scenes who assist them in various stages, including before and after the fraud, in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches.

In the midst of all this, one of the most important elements of prevention and combat against economic corruption is undoubtedly supervision, which can be carried out in a centralized or decentralized manner. In the Islamic Republic, the only thing that is not lacking is the presence of supervisory institutions. A brief review of them reveals the abundance and dispersion of these institutions, which are present in all branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial). The supervisory institutions in the executive branch include: the Organization of Planning and Budget, the Ministry of Intelligence, the State Audit Organization, the Central Bank, the Organization for the Protection of Consumers and Producers, the Organization of Governmental Sanctions, the Central Headquarters for Combating Smuggling of Goods and Currency, the Special Inspection of the Presidency, the National Organization for Standardization, the Organization for Regulation of Radio and Communications, the Office of Supervision and Accreditation of Medical Affairs, the Supreme Supervisory Board, and others. Meanwhile, the supervisory

In the midst of all this, despite the abundance of surveillance devices and nested organizations scattered throughout various institutions, a question arises: with such a large number of surveillance devices, how is it possible for someone like “Amirhossein Sharifian”, who has not even served in the military and is considered a deserter, to easily slip through the cracks of surveillance or selection and embezzle billions of tomans and easily flee the country?

It is not bad to mention one of the specialized centers in this field called F.I.O.U, which is a subsidiary of the Ministry of Intelligence. This section is specifically responsible for tracking suspicious financial transactions. It seems that due to the level of access this center has to the country’s financial transaction data, before the CEO of Cyrus Company can leave the country, due to the high volume of suspicious transactions and the accounts of this company and its owners, it should be included in the list of suspicious money laundering cases by the F.I.O.U center and be under security surveillance. But the fact that this does not happen and this person easily leaves the country is a question that has occupied the minds of the general public.

Without a doubt, using energy to fight corruption should be focused on prevention rather than treatment. This is because the effectiveness of fighting corruption is greater when we have a forward-looking approach rather than a punitive one. Without a doubt, the discourse on combating corruption should give way to a discourse on addressing the root causes of corruption in order to effectively prevent it. In fact, the issue of sustainable security can never be achieved through short-sighted measures; measures that aim to achieve a hundred years of security in one night only lead to failure and disruption of the country’s security.

Perhaps if instead of having parallel surveillance devices in the country, we had a precise monitoring system for the performance of various oversight agencies, we would not have witnessed such diversity in fraud. In these circumstances, even proper coordination among these parallel devices could have somewhat reduced the frequency of fraud.