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Woman charged with murdering husband in Baku put in four-month pretrial detention

15 October 2015 15:50 (UTC +04:00)

The Yasamal district court has sentenced both Lale Mahmudova and Sadi Mammadov to four months’ pretrial detention. Investigation into the case is still ongoing.

Sadi Mammadov fired several shots with his firearm on Kamran Mahmudov while the latter was asleep and then sliced his body into pieces together with Lale Mahmudova. They then carried the body in their BMW to the house of Sadi’s brother, Ali Mamamdov, in Ismayilli district and buried the pieces in the yard.

According to official information released by the Baku city police office and the city prosecutor’s office, the capital’s law enforcement agencies in a series of joint operations have uncovered an act of murder committed in under unknown circumstances.

On 26 September 2015, law enforcement agencies received information of Yasamal district resident Kamran Mahmudov (1976) having gone missing. As a result of investigative and search operations conducted based on this information, it became clear that on the same day around 3:00AM Baku city resident Sadi Mammadov and his acquaintance Lale Mahmudova on preliminary arrangement headed to the house of Lale’s husband, Kamran Mahmudov, in order to kill him. Sadi Mammadov fired several shots with his firearm on Kamran Mahmudov while the latter was asleep and then sliced his body into pieces together with Lale Mahmudova. They then carried the body in their BMW to the house of Sadi’s brother, Ali Mamamdov, in Ismayilli district and buried the pieces in the yard.

A criminal case has been opened on the Criminal Code’s Article 120.2.1 (deliberate murder by a group of persons on preliminary arrangement). Mahmudov’s body was exhumed for examination. The gun with which K. Mahmudov had been killed and 12 bullets were seized as material evidence.