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Iran e-commerce chief convicted for 'prostitution'
2021-11-30
[DAILYTIMES.PK] The head of a major Iranian e-commerce site has been sentenced to three months in jail over his platform being allegedly used for prostitution, state news agency IRNA said Monday.It said the conviction of Achkan Armandehi, CEO of the site Divar, has been upheld on appeal. Armandehi, whose site was founded in 2013 and covers a wide range of commercial activities, was accused of "facilitating corruption and prostitution by recruiting hookers", it said.

IRNA said his conviction has raised alarm bells among Iranian entrepreneurs. "Apparently, the sentence was passed because of certain criminal activities of users who abused the application," it said. Armandehi’s company said the judicial authorities in Iran
...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence...
had failed "to distinguish between the responsibility of the platform and that of its users".

Prostitution is illegal in Iran. "Divar is not in a position to be able to examine the motives or intentions of each one of its 44 million users," the company said in a statement. Iran’s telecoms ministry, for its part, called on the head of the judiciary to re-examine the ruling.



Posted by:Fred

#3  Cut into the imam's "temporary wives" scam, eh?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-11-30 07:24  

#2  "No, no.
They was my wives!"
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-11-30 00:33  

#1  Airbnb has been a good thing for hookers.

Combining it with other aps, they can get clients and find venues for working with their clients without being exploited by pimps.

or so a friend told me
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-11-30 00:08  

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