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Prosecutor: â€œWe are taking necessary measures to bring Armenian originator of mass shooting in Oil Academy to justiceâ€

21 April 2010 11:05 (UTC +04:00)

He said Gumashian was declared wanted by Interpol.

An unknown man entered the building, where the faculties â€œOil gas fieldâ€ and â€œOil engineeringâ€ of Azerbaijan Oil Academy located in Dilara Aliyeva Street, 227, and shot at everybody he met from the first floor up to the six floor. 12 were killed, 13 wounded in the aftermath of the shooting. Responsible employees of special task police unit, district police and prosecutorâ€™s offices immediately arrived at the site. Seeing he will be rendered harmless by the police the criminal committed suicide. He was identified as the Georgian citizen Gadirov Farda Asad, 29.

The defendants are charged with terrorism, preparation to deliberate murder, deliberate murder, attempt to deliberate murder, organized smuggling, illegal storage, saving and carrying of arms and ammunitions, illegal storage and carrying of narcotic drugs.

The public prosecutor declared the indictment. According to the indictment, Gumashian Mardun Grigorievich was born in Marneuli region of Georgia in 1951. He established a criminal group together with Gadirov Farda Asad Amirov Javidan Farman Aliyev Nadir Shirkhan and Suleymanov Najaf Novruz and struck a bargain with them to commit terrorist attack in Baku on the basis of ethnic hostility against Azerbaijanis. He promised them $US50 000 giving $US5000 to Gadirov, who bought a pistol and practiced to shoot. The terrorist group arrived in Baku in March 2009. Amirov offered to commit terrorist attack at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academyâ€™s building in the central part of Baku to create fear among the people.

Mardun Gumashian observed the aggressive character and greediness of Gadirov, who hated the people and could easily fall under the influence. He also observed poor conditions of Javidan Amirov and Nadir Aliyev, who intended to earn money. Gumashian decided to use these people to commit terrorist attacks in Baku.