Military Prosecutor's Office clarifies reports on arrest of former inspector

Military Prosecutor
# 11 August 2016 11:35 (UTC +04:00)

The Military Prosecutor's Office told APA that according to the results of the internal inquiry conducted upon the request of Former Chief of the Naval Forces’ Filling Service, imprisoned Lieutenant Colonel Kazim Asgarov on inspector Vugar Mammadli who acted as a member of the investigation team on the criminal case considered by the Military Prosecutor's Office against the Naval Forces’ group of officials acting in concert under the leadership of Former Commander of Azerbaijani Naval Forces, Vice Admiral Shahin Sultanov, Mammadli was dismissed from his post in October 2015, a criminal case was launched against him under the Criminal Code, and upon being completed, the investigation was sent to Baku Military Court.

“According to information received from the Baku Military Court, no verdict has been issued for victim Kazim Asgarov to return to his post as his attorney Adam Mammadov failed to submit the necessary documents to the court, nor has Mammadli been sentenced to pretrial detention on the same case. On top of these, attorney A. Mammadov has made baseless and inaccurate statements to the press for the purpose of understating the efforts made by prosecuting authorities,” the statement said.

Note that attorney A. Mammadov said in a statement to qafqaz.info that V. Mammadli has been arrested.

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