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Azerbaijani Interior Ministry and Republican Prosecutorâ€™s Office issue joint statement on newly-found facts about Ferda Gadirovâ€™s criminal case

20 June 2009 08:52 (UTC +04:00)

The investigative group analyzed the testimonies, videotapes, phone tapes and opinions about the necessary examination results. The investigators visited Ukraine, Russia and Belarus to learn Ferda Gadirovâ€™s relations there. The investigative operations conducted with supporting of the Russian law enforcement bodies identified that Ferda Gadirov lived in Podolsk, Russia together with his parents in the house of their relative Ayna Tahirbeyova until March 2006. He visited Dashtepe Village of Marneuli Region in Georgia in that period and then returned to Podolsk and stayed there until December 2006.

In the period from December 2006 to March 2008 he visited his relatives in the different regions of Russia and then he returned to Podolsk and got here the false passport of the Azerbaijani citizen and worked in one of the local firms. The investigators identified that Gadirov worked at the factory managed by former Baku residents Alexander Kocharov and Edward Mkrtumian and where 28 other Armenians were working. Despite that Gadirovâ€™s parents worked in the market near this factory and knew its workers, earlier they concealed from the investigators that their son worked at the factory, where managers and most of the workers were Armenians.

The investigators found Gadirovâ€™s false passport in the house in Podolsk where he lived. The passport was issued under the name of Azerbaijani citizen Ceyhun Shirinov, who lives in Bryansk, Russia.

Shirinov said he gave his passport which term expired in November 2007 to Rashid in Moscow and received new passport for 8000 rubles. While living in Stavropol, Russia in the house of his sister, Gadirov told a local resident, taxi driver that he had close relations with Armenians in Podolsk and they lend out money to him when Azerbaijani workers refused to help him.

Gadirovâ€™s friends in Georgia, the Kula Arms Georgia Ltd managers who sold him pistol and its documents were also interrogated. The investigators identified that Gadirov had a right only for the storage of this gun, but not to carry it. He took some pictures with the pistol on hand in 2008. Photo studio workers, where Gadirov took his photos, will also be interrogated to make clear why they donâ€™t inform police when they saw Gadirov with a pistol.

It was also identified that Gadirov had phone conversation and met with Armenian national Sergei Grigorian in October November 2008 to purchase Makarov pistol and necessary documents for it.

Gadirov told his townsman and crime associate Nadir Aliyev that he came to Baku to kill his townsman Gasim Asgarov because he had some disputes with him since 2004, but he tried to realize his plans in March 2009, but failed.

Nadir Aliyev told the investigators that Gadirov showed him a gun and bullets and spoke about his plans telling him that Marneuli-Baku bus driver assistant Ariz Gabulov help him to bring the pistol to Azerbaijan. In Baku, Gadirov phoned Najaf Suleymanov, who witnessed his training with the pistol in Georgia, but he avoided to communicate and to meet with him.

Ariz Gabulov faced with charges for arm smuggling under articles 206.3.2 (smuggling on preliminary arrangement by group of persons) 228.1 (illegal purchase, transfer, selling, storage, transportation or carrying of fire-arms, accessories to it, supplies (except for the smooth-bore hunting weapon and ammunition to it), explosives) of the Penal Code of Azerbaijan and was arrested for pre-trail restrictions.

Gadirovâ€™s neighbor in Georgia Najaf Suleymanov, whom he communicated with in Baku, was also arrested for pre-trail restrictions and faced with charges under article 307.1 (not informing about crimes and obviously not promised concealment of crimes) of the Penal Code.

It was identified that Gadirov was alcohol addict and had parasite life style. He didnâ€™t communicate with his relatives, neighbors and friends. Blood sample taken from his body showed that he suffered from syphilis.

The investigators found a prostitution house in the bar Eko in Baku, where Gadirov visited frequently, and identified that bar managers created conditions for women suffered from venereal diseases to prostitute there. The investigative materials separated from the case under article 244.2.2 (Maintenance of prostitution house on preliminary arrangement by group of persons or organized group) of the Penal Code were sent to the Interior Ministry to be investigated.

The investigative measure are continued now to clear crime comprehensively and completely.