Incident

Incident

Interior Ministry and General Prosecutorâ€™s Office spread information about the prevention of arms smuggling

17 October 2008 15:23 (UTC +04:00)

Interior MinistryÉ™s Press Service told APA that on October 13, 2008 at about 13.00 suspicious KamAZ truck driven by Valiyev Intigam Farman was stopped by the traffic policemen in 343 km of the Baku-Gazakh road. Russian, Turkish and US-made 157 sporting guns, 26 boxes of bullets, 10 boxes of pistons and three boxes of sporting gun spare parts, as well as 300 armlets were found in the truck.
Ganja City Police Office after the preliminary investigations launched a criminal case on articles 206.1 and 228.4 of the criminal Code of Azerbaijan Republic. The case was sent to the Ganja City Prosecutorâ€™s Office to continue investigation there because of probability of functionaries and foreigners involving in the crime. The investigators made clear that employee of the Istanbul-based Turkish Oz Nuhoglu Transportation Companyâ€™s Baku Office Sayavush Eyvazov, head of the Sumgayit-based â€œFrankyâ€ arm-trader firm Gurbat Najafov, resident of Agstafa Region and former employee of the â€œBrokerâ€ organization near Red Bridge frontier post Ilham Rahimov and Turkeyâ€™s citizen named Haji Sharaf were involved in criminal affiliations and agreed to smuggle ammunitions to Azerbaijan. Haji Sharaf smuggled the ammunitions through Turkey-Georgia border, handed it over to Sayavush Eyvazov so that he could deliver it to Sumgayit resident Gurbat Najafov for sale. Sayavush Eyvazov loaded â€œGAZelâ€ vehicle owned by unidentified Georgian citizens with ammunitions, brought to Georgia-Azerbaijan border and told his acquaintance Ilham Rahimov to smuggle the goods to Azerbaijan. On October 13, 2008 Ilham Rahimov smuggled the ammunitions through â€œSinig korpuâ€ border checkpoint, loaded KamAZ owned by Intigam Valiyev with the ammunitions in Shikhli village of Gazakh region, but was detained by the police on the way to Sumgayit.
It was found out that the members of the gang had smuggled sporting guns, its spare parts and cartridges to Azerbaijan several times before. Sayavush Eyvazov, Gurbat Najafov and Ilham Rahimov faced charges under article 206.3.2 of the Criminal Code and were arrested. Investigation is underway to hold accountable other persons, who participated in committing the crime, and determine other crimes committed by the gang members.