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Member of group accused of having links with international terrorist network: We were to attack the foreign exchange office in Sumgayit and give the money to the mujahids

02 February 2010 15:19 (UTC +04:00)

Azer Orujov presided over the trial. The defendants continued giving testimonies.

Defendant Namig Mammadov partially admitted his guilt and said he did not fight with the Chechen military units against Russia in the North Caucasus. But he went to Georgia. Elshan Druskar said he went to Ingushetia to participate in the military operations carried out by the radical religious groups against Russian armed forces. Teymur Akhundov partially admitted his guilt.
â€œWe were to attack the foreign exchange office in Sumgayit and give the money to the mujahids, because those persons earned haram money,â€ he said.

Arif Ibrahimov said they were provided with weapons in Gori, Georgia.
â€œBut I have never fought with the armed units. I went to Georgia at the invitation of Namig Mammadov. I was unaware of the situation,â€ he said.

Elchin Janagayev, Ramil Farzaliyev, Fuad Movsumov and Rashad Mahmudov partially admitted their guilt.

The process will continue on February 10.

According to the indictment, the group having links with the international terrorist network set up an illegal unit and planned actions against the state. The head of the group Azer Misirkhanov, aka Abdulla, once participated in special exercises and battles with illegal armed groups in various conflict zones. He was detained while illegally crossing Azerbaijanâ€™s state border in 2001 and sentenced. After the term of his sentence expired, and sentenced. After the term of his sentence expired, Azer Misirkhanov left to participate in the terrorist actions against anti-terror coalition forces. The members of this armed group organized hiding of Samir Mehdiyev, aka Suleyman, one of the heads of the â€œForest brothersâ€ armed group, who was wanted for the terror attack in Abu Bakr mosque on August 17, 2008. The group also planned to explode Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline. A great deal of munitions was confiscated from them.

The defendants faced charges under articles 279.1 (creation of armed formations or groups, which are not provided by the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic, and also participation in their creation and activity, supplying them by weapon, ammunition, explosives, military engineering or military equipment), 29, 214.2.1 (attempt to a terror attack committed on preliminary arrangement by group of persons, by organized group or criminal community), 214.2.3 (attempt to a terror attack committed with application of fire-arms or subjects used as a weapon), 228.2.1 (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 on preliminary arrangement by group of persons), 229.2.1 (illegal manufacturing of fire-arms, supplies to it, ammunition, explosives, and also repair of fire-arms on preliminary arrangement by group of persons), 181.2.1 (burglary), 206.3.2 (smuggling of weapons by a group of persons), 234.1 (illegal purchase or storage without a purpose of selling of narcotics or psychotropic substances in a quantity (amount) exceeding necessary for personal consumption), 120 (deliberate murder), 206 (smuggling), 185 (illegal occupation of automobile or other vehicle without a purpose of plunder), 318 (illegal crossing border) and 126 (deliberately inflicting serious bodily harm) of the Criminal Code.

Head of the group, Azer Misirkhanov aka Abdulla was killed in Afghanistan during the operations carried out by the US forces.