Baku. Etibar Mammadov – APA. The Baku Court of Grave Crimes on Monday postponed the hearing on the case of the former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir Hajiyev and seven more people connected with him to September 31.
Though it was decided to resume the hearing after break, the accused Ibrahim Huseynov’s lawyer Azer Taghiyev and Jahangir Hajiyev’s lawyer Agil Layijov didn’t attend the hearing. Thus, the hearing was postponed.
The judge said that he will send a letter of complaint on the lawyers to the Bar.
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Baku. Etibar Mammadov – APA. The Baku Court on Grave Crimes on Monday resumed the hearing on the case of the former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir Hajiyev and seven more people connected with him.
The hearing was presided over by judge Afghan Hajiyev. The judge said that although the court’s decision requiring compulsory attendance of the witnesses who did not give testimony, they are not attending the hearing as they are outside the country and for some other reasons.
Hajiyev’s lawyer, Agil Layijov, underlined the importance of the participation of witnesses. Then the witnesses’ testimonies were read out.
Witness Vugar Sadigov said he was employee of ‘Inter Security’ company and he signed the documents for credit.
Witness Tarlan Ismayilov noted that he was acquainted with Mammad Jahangirov and once Jahangirov took his ID card and officialized taking 300,000 manats for other person in the bank. He did not protest to Jagangirov.
Then, Adalat Muradov’s testimony was read out. He said he took part in the search for Azad Javadov’s house in which a gun and a sword were found. Javadov said the gun does not belong to him and the sword was just a present, adding that the shotgun belongs to him and he has the documents.
Chief inspector of Financial Market Control Chamber Ayaz Aliyev testified that they conducted an inspection regarding the loans granted by the International Bank for natural persons and rules of issuance of loans via credit cards of Hajiyev’s closed ones. During the inspections, law violation was revealed in the issuance of loans.
Lawyer Azer Taghiyev said that the persons, whose testimonies were read out, must be called to the court.
The accused Ibrahim Huseynov said that though a few persons testified in the investigation introducing themselves as employees of the company he headed, they were not employed by the company. Therefore, he asked those persons to be called to the court.
The judges said that the witnesses could not come. Then the documents were investigated. Some documents were read out. The hearing will be resumed afternoon.
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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