TEHRAN - The Iranian banking system has paid 25.29 quadrillion rials (about $50.58 billion) of facilities to various economic sectors in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20 -August 21), registering a 23.9 percent rise from the figure in the same period of the previous year, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced.

As IRNA reported, of the total facilities, about 75.6 percent, was paid to the business owners (real and legal), and 24.4 percent, to the final consumers (households).

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