Investigative reports indicate that Mo'ud Shamkhani lobbied for Hossein Abdolbaghi, the owner of the 10-story Metropol building to secure projects with local city and provincial officials. The reports also charge that the former governor-general of Khuzestan Province Gholamreza Shariati and the city's mayor Hossein Hamidpur were also involved in providing land and funds for Abdolbaghi's companies in Abadan.