Jordanian ambassador in Tel Aviv, Badran's daughter suspects in bank fraud case

The Jordanian state security court has frozen transferred and non- transferred assets of 73 persons suspected to be involved in the recent case of banking fraud.

The court added other 15 new suspects whose names were issued earlier. The new list includes sons and daughters and wives of the former intelligence director and current member of al-Ayan council Sameih al-Bateikhim the relatives of the first suspect in this case Majd al-Shamaeylah and several businessmen.

The Qatari satellite TV "al-Jazira" said on Tuesday quoting its correspondent in Amman as saying that among the new names which were added to the "reserved " list of persons whose assets were frozen and are prevented from travelling outside the country is Abdul Illah al-Kurdi, the Jordanian ambassador appointed in Tel Aviv. He is a former officer in the general intelligence, as well as the daughter of the former Jordanian prime minister Mudar Badran.

Al-Jazira added that a political decision was taken at the highest level to unmask the names of persons involved in al-Shameylah scandal, whatsoever their posts are.