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Trial starts for those accused of fatal fire in Baku high-rise

17 June 2016 12:00 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Shahriyar Alizade – APA. Baku Court of Grave Crimes on Friday initiated the trial for the criminal case of those accused over the fire accident in a high-rise in Baku’s Binagadi district on 19 May 2015, which left 15 people dead and 50 others injured.

The personal data of the accused were specified at the preliminary hearing.

Lawyers of the accused filed petitions to remove certain evidence from the case materials, terminate the criminal case and commute the imprisonment of detainees.

The court rejected the appeals.

The hearing will be resumed on June 28.

Earlier, a criminal case has been launched over the fatal fire accident.

Due to the existence of sufficient suspicions of damaging the rights and legally protected interests of citizens and state as a result of not using authorities through duties assigned its observance, Ugur Bashirov, General Manager of Global Stone LLC, which produced polyurethane for facing buildings, Deputy Chairman of Global Construction LLC Alakbar Asgarov, head of the economic department of Binagadi district executive power and former head of housing and communal services of Binagadi district in 2012-2013, Adalat Rajabov, head of Binagadi district housing and public utility Nizami Orujov were sentenced to 4-month imprisonment under articles #225.2 (infringement of fire safety rules which on imprudence brought to death of a victim or other heavy consequences) and #308.2 (abusing official powers entailed heavy consequences) of the Criminal Code. They were sentenced to four months in prison. Their prison term has been extended several times.

Chief of Testing Laboratory of 'Dernegul Boru Zavodu' Closed Joint Stock Company Mammadov Aghajavad, Director General of the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health Alibayov Akif were also involved in the criminal case, but they were not sentenced to pre-trial detention.

The fire that occurred in a multi-storey building in the Azadlig Avenue in Baku left 15 people dead and 50 more injured.