The daily newspaper Kayhan reported that Mohammad Taqi...

The daily newspaper Kayhan reported that Mohammad Taqi Amini was executed by hanging for his role in a multimillion dollar fraud, it did not specify the date of his execution. He was killed in a Tehran prison after the Supreme Court upheld a death sentence issued against him in 1998. Three accomplices, all customs officials, were also sentenced to death in 1998. Before being hanged, Amini was flogged for illicit sexual relations under Iran's Islamic laws.