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Tehran, March 6, IRNA – Oil billionaire Babak Zanjani and two other defendants were sentenced to death penalty on Sunday, spokesman for the Judiciary Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei announced on Sunday.

They were also sentenced to compensate for around 2 billion euros Zanjani is indebted to Petroleum Ministry.
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