 In the 2009 Iran poll protests trial, a defendant (Hamzeh Karami) accused Rafsanjani of spending assets of the Iranian Fuel Conservation Organization to finance his father's 2005 campaign.Rafsanjani questioned the credibility of the confession pointing out that Karami "stood trial on Tuesday without a defense attorney after having spent over 70 days in solitary", and accused president Ahmadinejad of embezzling a far larger amount "that went missing from the Tehran governor's office in 2005.