The Head of the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) has fired five of its members for a range of indiscretions including manipulating attendance records, ignoring a presidential decree, not doing their work and administration violations, IECC said in a letter sent to the media.  

In the letter, five people from the electoral complaints commission were named and noted as having been fired. 

The officials named in the letter are the technical deputy of IECC head secretariat, head of analyses and evaluation department, head of documents and relations department, head of human resources department and IECC attendance manager. 

The letter also said the details of the accusations will be shared with the public in the near future. 

Head of the electoral complaints commission Abdul Aziz Aryaie said out of the five commissioners, three agreed to the firing of these people, but the IECC secretariat technical deputy head said the move was in violation of the law. 

IECC secretariat technical deputy head Walid Ahmad Sarwari also accused the head of the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission of financial and administrative corruption. 

“The commission chief, based on his personal interests and in cooperation with one to two members of the commission, took an illegal decision on Wednesday. Their decision was labeled illegal by the head secretariat and rejected, and it will not be implemented,” said Sarwari. 

Those who were fired meanwhile said they had evidence that Aryaie has been involved in corruption. 

The Independent Election Commission meanwhile said they have not received any letter regarding the firing of the commission head secretariat Imam Mohammad Warimach. 

“We should receive a letter of dismissal (of IEC head secretariat) to make the next decisions in the commission,” IEC spokesman Abdul Badi Sayad said. 

Presidential Palace did not comment in this regard, but the institutions overseeing the election process accused government of being negligent over such issues.