Baku. Etibar Mammadov – APA. The Baku Court of Grave Crimes on Wednesday continued the hearing after break on the case of the former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan, Jahangir Hajiyev, and seven more people connected with him.
Judge Afgan Hajiyev, who presided over the hearing, dismissed the petitions filed by the attorneys.
The court then declared the judicial investigation in the case completed.
The prosecutor asked the court for time to prepare a speech.
The hearing will be continued on September 27.
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Baku. Etibar Mammadov – APA. The Baku Court of Grave Crimes on Wednesday held a hearing in the case of the former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan, Jahangir Hajiyev, and seven more people connected with him.
At the hearing presided over by judge Afgan Hajiyev, Janagir Hajiyev’s attorney Fakhraddin Mehdiyev filed a petition that the trial is being held in haste, three times a week.
He noted that the judges are interested in an early completion of the trial.
“We can not even consult together with the defendants. The court doesn’t properly consider the documents submitted,” Mehdiyev said.
The judge noted that all appeals will be considered only after the case materials are investigated.
Hajiyev’s attorneys filed a petition objecting to the composition of the court.
The judge, in turn, said that the objection should be addressed to the court chairman.
Addressing the hearing, Jahangir Hajiyev stressed the importance of bringing the bank documents to the court.
“Because all loan terms are reflected in those documents. After the devaluation of the manat rate, some differences occurred, which must be taken into consideration in the loan issues”, said Hajiyev.
According to him, loans are issued on the decision of the bank’s Board.
“When such a decision is passed, the secretary’s name is mentioned in the document, not mine. But such an impression is created that as if I worked in place of three thousand persons and granted loans,” he added.
Then the lawyers raised several petitions at the hearing.
Hajiyev’s attorney Agil Layijov said his defendant’s spouse and daughter have traded shares with the bank.
“That is, the debt from the credit cards given to them was covered this way. But the Ministry of Finance deliberately withholds from writing off the credit card debts which were given to them in accordance with terms of the contact, while the debts have already been paid. For this particular reason, I will make a petition for alteration of the credit debts of Hajiyev’s family members with shares,” he said.
Hajiyev added that his daughter Leyla Mahmudova did not even have any credit debts and therefore her name has to be removed from the bill of indictment.
The attorney’s other petition had to do with Dunyamin Khalilov and Khagani Bashirov’s invitation to the court as witnesses.
“The loans taken out from the bank were spent on projects, not for personal goals. Dunyamin Khalilov can confirm it too. Foreign projects were headed by Khagani Bashirov. So these persons should give testimony in court for an unbiased investigation into the case,” he said.
Attorney Fakhraddin Mehdiyev in his turn made a petition for Finance Minister Samir Sharifov’s interrogation in court.
Public prosecutor Farid Naghiyev called for a decline of the petitions.
As for the Finance Ministry’s information about Hajiyev’s embezzlement of some 5 billion manats, the prosecutor said that this has nothing to do with the bill of indictment. “So there is no need to bring Finance Ministry spokesperson Mais Piriyev to the court. The documents with the Finance Ministry must have been submitted to the concerned bodies and they must be being investigated at the moment.”
The process paused for a break.
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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