"Before we finished our investigation, the election commission announced the results of the election," said Hafizullah Hafiz, the head of the attorney general's complaints department.
The House and Senate Intelligence committees, both conducting their own parallel investigations into election interference, investigated the content of these fake accounts and the circumstances that led to their spread.
The accusations have also prompted national black organizations to call for a federal investigation into election irregularities in Florida.
Representative Billy Tauzin, the chairman of the House subcommittee on telecommunications, is less impressed, and has said he will lead a Congressional investigation into election projections on television.
Judicial sources said that 15 city officials, including Mayor Jean Tiberi's top aide, had been put under formal investigation for election fraud.
A10 French Fraud Inquiry Widens Fifteen Paris officials, including the mayor's top aide, were put under investigation for election fraud.
He told reporters he would continue pursuing a direct dialogue with Tehran, but he urged that any Iranian investigation of election irregularities be conducted without bloodshed.
Last month, at the conclusion of an investigation into election rigging dating to 1990, the Supreme Court ordered the government to start criminal proceedings against Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg, a former army chief, and Lt. Gen. Asad Durrani, a former head of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate
The site, voteauction.com, was instructed by a Chicago judge on Wednesday to withdraw its offer pending further investigation by election officials concerned that operating such a scheme might be a felony offense.
Alfred Mutua, the government's top spokesman, said that Mr. Wako was merely making a suggestion and that an independent investigation into election irregularities "was not necessarily going to happen".
