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Trial postponed as Chovdarovâ€™s health deteriorates

20 February 2017 15:04 (UTC +04:00)

An Azerbaijani court continued after the break 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), and others arrested alongside him.

Chovdarov’s lawyer Sadig Rasulov told reporters that victim Jahangir Alishov answered the questions, several witnesses testified. Then Chovdarov’s health deteriorated. He couldn’t participate at the trial. Thus, the trial was postponed to Feb. 22.

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An Azerbaijani court on Monday resumed 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), and others arrested alongside him.

Following the trial presided over by Baku Military Court chairman Habib Hasanov, Chovdarov's lawyers refused to give statement to journalists, APA reported.

Lawyers Kamandar Nasibov and Sadig Rasulov did not respond to questions.

Anar Gasimli, the lawyer of defendant Akif Aliyev, briefly told journalists that Jahangir Alishov, the head of “Yeni Yasamal” housing-construction cooperative, testified at the hearing as an aggrieved person. He confirmed the testimony he had given during the preliminary investigation.

The trial will be continued in the afternoon.

In his testimony during the preliminary investigation, Alishov said that a person from the MNS, who introduced himself as Ali, Ali put a forward a condition that all property that fall to share of Nasib Aliyev in the company should be registered to the names of the persons they presented.

“I said that Nasib Aliyev has already sold the residential and non-residential areas that fall to his share and took the money. The next day, when I met with Akif Chovdarov, he demanded me to fulfill these conditions and give AZN 500,000. And out of necessity, a total of 27 contracts were drawn up with the signature of mine and Nasib Aliyev which registered 19 apartments, 4 garages, 3 non-residential areas (store) and 1 basement were registered to those citizens. And those houses had already been sold to other persons and had been paid,” Alishov added.

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.

The court ordered seizure on property and cash worth of 33,466,000, trade and service sectors, greenhouses, aquaculture farms and other property complexes, land plots worth of 8,967,000 manats, private houses, apartments and vehicles worth of 24,445,000 manats, jewelry worth of 37,000 manats belonging to the accused persons –- Akif Chovdarov, Salim Mammadov, Akif Aliyev and Orkhan Osmanov to compensate damage caused to the aggrieved persons.