Mir-Ali-Ashraf Abdollah Porihoseini | |
Order: | member of Islamic Consultative Assembly |
Term Start: | 1988 |
Term End: | 1992 |
Constituency: | Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr (electoral district) |
Term Start2: | 2000 |
Term End2: | 2004 |
Constituency2: | Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr (electoral district) |
Order3: | Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance of Iran & President of Iranian Privatization Organization |
Term Start3: | 2004 |
Term End3: | 2005 |
Predecessor3: | Ahmad Mirmotahhari |
Successor3: | Mohammadrahim Ahmadvand |
Order4: | Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance of Iran & President of Iranian Privatization Organization |
Minister4: | Ali Tayebnia |
Term Start4: | 2013 |
Term End4: | 2019 |
Predecessor4: | Mohammadrahim Ahmadvand |
Birth Place: | Tabriz, Iran |
Party: | Iranian reform movement |
Mir-Ali-Ashraf Abdollah Porihoseini (میرعلی اشرف عبدالله پوری حسینی in Persian, born 1961 in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian economist, politician, vice president of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance and president of Iranian Privatization Organization in the cabinet of Hassan Rouhani[1] and former member of Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Tabriz.[2]
Porihoseini's actions in his capacity as the head of privatization organization has been controversial for few years especially the acquisition of a national meat factory (Ardabil Meat Industrial Complex) by a private entity that Porihoseini himself, was a stakeholder.[3] [4] On 14 August 2019 he was arrested on the charge of improper transactions and economic fraud.[5]