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Ammon News - Ammon News - Amman Prosecutor General Ziyad Dmour on Sunday sent a memo to the Housing Bank for Trade and Finance, requesting that all money deposited in the account of the convicted General Intelligence Department (GID) former chief, Mohammad Dahabi, be transferred to the Ministry of Justice's account at the Central Bank, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

The memo came in implementation of the Amman Criminal Court's last year verdict under which Dahabi was found guilty of charges of embezzlement, money laundering and exploitation of public office and was sentenced to 13 years and three months in prison, Petra said.

After proceedings that lasted for around a year, the court also seized around JD24 million of the former GID head’s property and ruled that he also pay a fine of JD21 million.

Last week, the Cassation Court rejected a petition filed by Dahabi’s lawyers, challenging the verdict issued against him in November 2012.

Dahabi spent more than 10 months in custody during the hearings, although his lawyers filed 21 requests for his release on bail, which the court turned down every time.

Dahabi headed the GID in the period between 2005 to 2008.