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Two officials arrested for raising bread price artificially - UPDATED

Two officials arrested for raising bread price artificially - <span style="color: red;">UPDATED

14 January 2016 18:27 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. In accordance with the instructions of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the State Service for Antimonopoly Policy and Consumer Protection under the Ministry of Economy and Industry in cooperation with the General Directorate for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General's Office continued urgent preventive and administrative, including operational and investigative measures to prevent artificial price increases, purposeful creation of shortages and other abuses of the change in exchange rate of manat.

The monitoring of the State Service for Antimonopoly Policy and Consumer Protection under the Ministry of Economy and Industry has revealed cases of use of exchange rate of manat to artificially high prices for bread products in Barda and Mingachevir. For example, the store manager “BÉ™rdÉ™ ÇörÉ™k” Ltd. Ilgar Hasanov and chairman of “Kür-ÇörÉ™k” (Mingachevir) Rovshan Hajiyev, abused their official powers, allowed reducing the weight of bread produced from flour of the 1st and 2nd grades. caused considerable damage to the interests of consumers. Appropriate materials were sent to the General Directorate for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General, on the basis of these collected materials criminal case has been launched under Art. 308.1 (abuse of power) and 200.1 (consumer fraud or the production and sale of substandard products). Hasanov and Hajiyev were detained as suspects.

Currently ongoing operational and investigative activities in the direction of bringing the perpetrators to justice.

Main Directorate for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General recommends to entrepreneurs avoid any artificial increase in prices, targeting the creation of shortages and other abuses of the change in exchange rate of manat. The State Service for Antimonopoly Policy and Consumer Protection under the Ministry of Economy and Industry in cooperation with the General Directorate for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General will continue to administrative and operational-investigative measures to prevent such incidents.

Citizens are confronted with such cases, it is recommended to apply to the "hot line" of these agencies - 161, 195-2.