During the hearing, presided over by judge Afghan Hajiyev, the petitions made by the defendants’ attorneys were denied, APA reported.
The hearing was scheduled to August 24.
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Baku. Etibar Mammadov – APA. The Baku Court on Grave Crimes on Wednesday resumed the preparatory hearing on the case of Chairman of the Board of “International Bank of Azerbaijan” OJSC Jahangir Hajiyev and seven more people connected with him.
During the hearing, presided over by judge Afghan Hajiyev, attorneys of the defendants made a petition,APA reported.
Jahangir Hajiyev’s attorney, Fakhraddin Mehdiyev, made a petition for an end to the criminal or replacement of arrest with house arrest. He also made a petition that the defendants be taken out of the glass-walled cage and be seated next to their defenders, and Minister of Finance Samir Sharifov be brought to the hearing and interrogated.
Having pleaded not guilty, Jahangir Hajiyev gave the following speech:
“I’m not a lawyer. Since 2001, I had been the chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Bank. When the criminal case was opened, I was abroad. But as soon as they called me, I came back to the country. I have testified before the investigators 11 times so far. In December of last year, the arrested verdict was issued against me. I was illegally detained for 38 days. If I had been guilty, I would not have returned to the homeland. We worked together with the other accused persons. There was no problem. The investigation was conducted in an unprofessional and biased way. In the indictment there is information on giving loans to 49 individuals. We have presented documents on how and for which areas the loans were granted. It is said that in this case there has been a misappropriation. But none of the people who took a loan said anything of whom they gave the money. Members of the audit committee of the International Bank were employees of the Ministry of Finance. They used to sit in the bank and sign all decisions. The indictment makes no mention of any case about employees at the audit commission, the financial council, the board of directors. Samir Sharifovhimself must give evidence in the case. He must sit here next to me. It is said that some loans will not be returned, but their repayment period is not over yet. Now, all have loans. It’s known that 2 million people across the country have loans. Then let them eliminate the banking system and detain the loan providers.”
The state prosecutor asked for denial of the petitions, saying it is wrong to say the act is not criminal before analyzing the pieces of evidence.
The hearing will be resumed after the break.
Note that Jahangir Hajiyev, Anar Sultanov, who has worked as director of the central branch of the International Bank, Ilgar Abdullayev, a former head of the bank’s central branch, Ibrahim Huseynov, former director of Inter Security LLC, Yusif Akbarov, former director of the bank’s central branch, Kanan Orujov, former director of the bank’s transport branch, Mammad Jahangirov, who has worked as director of the bank’s Narimanov branch, and Azad Javadov, former director of the Baku hazelnut plant are charged under articles 179.3.1, 179.3.2 (Assignment or waste, is plunder of property entrusted to guilty by another person), 308.2 (Abusing official powers), 309.2 (Excess of official powers), 313 (service forgery), 228.1 and 228.4 (Illegal purchase, transfer, selling, storage, transportation and carrying of fire-arms, accessories to it, supplies, explosives).
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