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Akif Chovdrov: I will begin hunger strike - UPDATED

Akif Chovdrov: I will begin hunger strike - <span style="color: red;">UPDATED

30 January 2017 13:30 (UTC +04:00)

Baku’s Sabunchu district court on Monday continued the trial in the criminal case involving Major General Akif Chovdarov, former head of the main energy and transport security directorate under the liquidated Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan, and other people arrested alongside him.

A former employee of the ministry and an employee of the State Security Service testified at the trial as witnesses, APA reported. They said they were welcoming the persons coming to the ministry and accompanying them to upper floors.

Chovdarov’s attorneys raised objections to the results of examination. They said the examination rejected their demand for a holter monitor and physicians for examining Chovdarov.

Chovdarov said he doesn’t want formal examination. “If the court rejects these demands, I will refuse to attend the next trial and will begin a hunger strike,” he added.

The trial will be resumed on Feb. 1.

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Two physicians of the Central Customs Hospital gave testimonies upon the episode of victim Mubariz Mammadov at the trial presided over by judge Chairman of Baku Military Court Habib Hasanov, APA reported.

They said Mammadov underwent surgery and stand was placed in his heart. The physicians said they did not have information that Mammadov had been beaten. Chovdarov said he did not beat Mammadov. He said he cried at him and demanded not to lie.

Mammadov said Chovdarov had beaten him.

Attorney Sadiq Rasulov told reporters that Chovdarov has health problems and therefore frequent breaks are being taken at the trial.

The trial will be continued later in the day.

According to the bill of indictment, Chovdarov bought an area of 18 acre from entrepreneur Mubariz Mammadov through Rafiq Taghiyev at a price of 600,000 dollars and gave a half of this amount in advance. But it later became clear that the land had been sold to two persons—Mubariz Mammadov and the Ministry of Youth and Sport. Chovdarov, after finding out that a state structure was involved in the affair, took Mammadov to his room and tortured him there and demanded his money from him. Finally, he was able to grant the land to someone close to him.

Chovdarov gave detailed testimony about this matter, saying he was not a client to the land.

“Rafiq Taghiyev came to the MNS and complained about Mubariz Mammadov, saying 300,000 dollars had been defrauded from him. To solve the problem, we called Mubariz Mammadov to the office and had a talk with him. I did not beat him. I just advised him to return the money. After that, I haven’t know what happened, whether the money was returned or not,” he said.

Akif Chovdarov faces charges under Articles 145.3 (illegal deprivation of freedom of a person, causing to the death of the victim or other serious consequences by negligence), 179.3.1, 179.3.2 (embezzlement or waste by an organized group on a large scale), 181.3.1, 181.3.2 (robbery committed by an organized group in order to seize the property on a large scale), 182.3.1, 182.3.2 (extortion, committed by an organized group in order to obtain property on a large scale), 228.4 (illegal purchase, selling or carrying of gas weapon, cold steel, including throwing weapon), 302.1, 302.2 (implementation operative - search actions by not authorized persons, as well as implementation of these actions by authorized persons, but without grounds provided by the legislation, entailed essential, and the same acts committed with use of special means, intended for secret dredging the information), 311.3.1, 311.3.2, 311.3.3, 311.3.4 (bribe-taking by a group of persons on preliminary arrangement, committed repeatedly on a large scale with the use of threats), 313 (service forgery), 341.2.1, 341.2.2, 241.2.3 (abusing authority, excess or inactivity of authority committed by a group of persons, committed with the use of weapons, resulted in grave consequences) of the Criminal Code. The former head of the first department of the ministry’s main directorate Salim Mammadov is charged under articles 145.3, 179.3.1, 179.3.2, 181.3.1, 181.3.2, 182.3.1, 182.3.2, 302.1, 302.2, 311.3.1, 311.3.2, 311.3.3, 311.3.4, 313, 341.2.1, 341.2.2 and 341.2.3; the former head of the second department Akif Aliyev is charged under articles 145.3, 179.3.1, 179.3.2, 181.3.1, 181.3.2, 182.3.1, 182.3.2, 302.2, 311.3.1, 311.3.2, 311.3.3, 311.3.4, 313, 341.2.1, 341.2.2 and 341.2.3; the former deputy head of the first division of the third department Orkhan Osmanov is charged under 145.3, 181.3.1, 181.3.2, 182.3.1, 182.3.2, 302.2, 311.3.1, 311.3.2, 311.3.3, 311.3.4, 341.2.1, 341.2.2 and 341.2.3.