Baku. Shahriyar Alizade – APA. The Baku Court of Grave Crimes on Friday resumed the trial of the arrested former chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir Hajiyev and seven more people connected with him.
Fuad Baghirzade, head of the credit department at the bank’s Surakhani branch, said two persons were given loans in 2011 and the documents were sent to the main office.
Inter Security LLC employee Ajdar Babayev said he signed the documents on the company’s order, adding that he has AZN 400,000 debt.
Akif Aliyev, former head of the bank’s credit control department, said a great deal of loans had been given on individuals’ names on the instructions of Jahangir Hajiyev.
Rafiqa Jabbarova, treasurer of the one of the bank’s transport branch, said the ones who were given loans had come and signed the documents themselves but they were not given cash. Chief accountant Afet Yusifova said the loans were documented, adding that despite the documents showed that the money had been received, she had no idea of the details.
Anar Bakirov, who served as an assistant to the bank’s board chairman, he gave instructions to the branch on the order of Jahangir Hajiyev about giving illegal loans to two Russian citizens.
Kamran Rahimli, head of the credit department at the transport branch, said they had documented the loans themselves and the funs had been transferred to the clients’ current accounts. He added that he had no idea of any more details.
The trail will be resumed on September 5.
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Baku. Etibar Mammadov – APA. The Baku Court of Grave Crimes on Friday resumed the trial of the arrested former chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir Hajiyev and seven more people connected with him.
Witness Kamala Huseynova said she knew Azad Javadov, whose spouse she said was her childhood friend. “In 2011, Azad told my husband that there are documents in the bank to be signed. Only when I was called to ‘Bandotdel’ (Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime) did I come to know what I had signed,” she said.
The prosecutor said AZN 757,500 loan had been taken on Huseynova’s name and there was AZN 666,000 interest debt too.
Witness Tofiq Javadov, an uncle of Azad’s, made a similar statement, saying Azad Javadov asked him to sign some documents in the Surakhani branch of the bank. The prosecutor said the loan was AZN 750,000, of which AZN 680,000 principal and AZN 289,000 interest debt remain.
Later on, Jahangir Hajiyev’s driver Aydin Mehdiyev testified, saying he has worked as a driver for Hajiyev from 1997 to 2008. “The director of the central branch, Anar Sultanov, told me on the phone that I should go and sign those documents. I asked Jahangir Hajiyev and he said that it is for some projects. He told me to sign, and I signed,” he said.
The witness answered the prosecutor’s questions, saying it became clear during the investigation that there was AZN 11,928,000 loan on his name, he didn’t know what it had been spent on, and did not pay for the credits. During the hearing, it also became clear that three plastic cards were made on his name from January 2009 to 2013. There were 18 million euros, 32 million dollars, and 10 million manats on the balance of those cards. The witness said he unaware of the cards and that he singed the documents only once.
Hajiyev, in turn, said the loans, issued to his driver on his personal order, were spent on projects.
In his testimony, Emil Mustafayev, advisor to the bank board chairman, noted that the 157 loans and VIP loans, which are mentioned in the case material, were allocated on Hajiyev’s order. He stated that the issuance of loans was carried out illegally and in this regard he appealed to the Interior Ministry after Hajiyev’s dismissal.
Mustafayev added that the VIP loans were issued to Hajiyev, his familiy members and friends.
"In fact, the decision to issue a loan of this type to board members and people close to them should be taken by the bank’s Supervisory Board. However, there was no such a decision,” he said.
To the question ‘why he appealed to the Interior Ministry after Hajiyev’s arrest’, Mustafayev replied: The management instructed so. Jahangir Hajiyev dismissed head of one of the branches Jalil Dasdemirov as he failed to obey the instructions.
Judges took a break at the hearing.
The former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir Hajiyev, the former heads of the bank’s Central branch Anar Sultanov and Ilgar Abdullayev, the former director of Inter Security LLC Ibrahim Huseynov, the former head of the bank’s Central branch Yusif Alakbarov, the former head of the bank’s Transport Branch Kanan Orujov, the former head of the bank’s Narimanov Branch Mammad Jahangirov and the former director of the Baku hazelnut factory Azad Javadov, who are involved in the case, are charged under articles 179.3.1, 179.3.2 (embezzlement on a large scale by an organized group), 308.2 (abuse of power, resulting in grave consequences), 309.2 (abuse of power, resulting in grave crimes), 313 (official forgery), 228.1 and 228.4 (illegal storage and carrying of firearms).
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