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QuestNet Chief Manager: â€œSome representatives of QuestNet in Azerbaijan deceived peopleâ€

03 March 2009 15:13 (UTC +04:00)

Volf Diiambor noted that QuestNet operated in 160 countries and said the company was represented in Azerbaijan by the agency.
â€œThe companyâ€™s representatives in Azerbaijan gave false information to people. We call people to join us consciously, while they deceived people and gave false information about the company. As far as I know some persons in Azerbaijan faked my documents,â€ he said.
Volf Diiambor said they decided to open a representation in Azerbaijan to change inaccurate impression about the company and added that they had started talks with the relevant bodies. Diiambor said he had been in Azerbaijani Interior Ministry and met with the detainees.
â€œThe investigation will find out what crimes the detainees have committed. A large company should not be spotted because of some men. Our activity in Azerbaijan is quite legal,â€ he said.
Representative of QuestNet for Turkey, Central Asia and Azerbaijan Hanifi Ishgoren also accused the companyâ€™s representatives of deceiving people and giving false information in Azerbaijan.
â€œWhen I came to Baku I saw that people thought differently of QuestNet. It is impossible to earn millions immediately. Our representatives here gave false information to people,â€ he said.
Lawyer of the company Natig Abdullayev said that arrested men had not any guilt.
â€œTherefore 37 of 41 arrested men have been released,â€ he said.
Abdullayev said that 6 officials of the company were arrested and two of them had been detained recently.
â€œOur production has been confiscated in connection with operations carried out by Interior Ministryâ€™s Department Combating Organized Crimes. Therefore we could not give production to the citizens. The company will give over 800 productions to citizens soon,â€ he said.
The criminal group introduced itself as QuestNet Company extended its activity in the capital and other regions of the country promising the employment opportunities to citizens an involving the young people in the sale of jewelries. They sold goldsmith pieces for 800 -1500 USD, higher than its real prices.
They extended their network on the basis of geometrical cycle, encouraging people with the workshops organized in their offices and promising to the active participants a place of marketing manager. They spent money receiving from the citizens to own high salaries, office rent and other communal expenditures.
The investigation showed that Azerbaijani manager of Hong Kong-based QuestNet Company Valeh Agayev, 42, organized the sale of jewelries to 5100 of 20 000 victims of a crime and nearly 15 000 citizens got left with promises of presents and employment.
Agayev brought the jewelries at the cost of 5-96 USD to Baku and distributed it among the citizens receiving payment in advance.
Insignificant part of money was transferred to the account in Hong Kong bank and spent to purchase of cheap jewelries in Germany, but most part of the collected money was robbed turning in cash via electronic card.
41 people working at the sale centers of the company were detained. Valeh Agayev and his three aides were arrested. A criminal case was launched on article 178.3.1 (swindle by organized group) of the Criminal Code and the fact is under the investigation.
The Interior Ministry warned the citizens not to believe in encouraging promises, to be more vigilant and to inform the law-enforcement bodies about the illegal cases they face.