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Former employees of State Anti-Monopoly Service released from court room

11 August 2009 14:43 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Hafiz Heydarov â€“ APA. The Court of Grave Crimes held the next hearing on the case of deputy chief of the State Anti-Monopoly Service under the Ministry of Economic Development Yalchin Mammadov, director of the Sector for Maintenance of Competition Ilham Shahmirzayev and senior adviser of the sector Idrak Alakbarov, who were detained together with former chief of the service Samir Dadashov. APA reports that Alovsat Abbasov presided over the hearing. Yalchin Mammadov got 3 years and 4 months suspended sentence, Ilham Shahmirzayev and Idrak Alakbarov 2 years and 11 months suspended sentence. All three were released from the court room.

Samir Dadashov, Yalchin Mammadov, Ilham Shahmirzayev and Idrak Alakbarov were detained by the Ministry of National Security on August 4, 2008. They faced charges under articles 179 (assignment or waste), 179.2.1 (on preliminary arrangement by group of persons), 308 (abusing official powers), 311.1 (reception by official personally or through intermediary of a bribe as money, securities, other property or benefits of property nature on actions (inaction) for the benefit of the briber or person represented by him, if such actions (inaction) are included into service powers of the official or it by virtue of official position can promote such actions (inaction), as well as for the general protection or indifference on service), 311.2 (reception by official of a bribe for illegal actions (inaction), 311.3.1 (on preliminary arrangement by group of persons or organized group), 311.3.3 (in the large amount), 313 (service forgery) of the Criminal Code. Later, Dadashovâ€™s arrest was commuted to house arrest in connection with his disease. Yalchin Mammadov was released on bail. As the bribery accusations against Samir Dadashov were not proved, the criminal case about him was closed.