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Court continues trial of former head of Azerbaijani Intâ€™l Bank

31 August 2016 13:16 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Etibar Mammadov – APA. The Baku Court of Grave Crimes on Wednesday resumed the trial of the arrested former chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir Hajiyev and seven more people connected with him.

Witness Samir Aliyev said he is a relative of defendant Azad Javadov and has worked in his company, noting that he signed the credit document worth AZN 780,700 on Javadov’s order.

Public prosecutor Farid Naghiyev mentioned that according to the document, the loan was given for house repair, while Aliyev insisted that he was not aware of this fact and that the loan was taken to cover the enterprise’s debts.

Javadov’s friend Emin Nabiyev said AZN 700,000 loan was taken in his name on Javadov’s order, adding that he has no information of the purpose. Upon this, the prosecutor added that the amount had been intended for the construction of a recreational center in Lankaran.

Rasim Mehdiyev, another friend of Javadov’s, said he signed a credit document worth AZN 750,000 to solve some financial problems of the Baku hazelnut factory.

The prosecutor noted that AZN 750,000 in fact was taken out to create a recreational center in Guba’s Gachrash village.

Javadov’s spouse, Naila Hasanova, said her husband told her to take out AZN 750,000 loan from the Narimanov branch. “I did so, but I was told nothing about this loan.”

The deputy director general of Inter Security LLC, Shakir Mammadov, said the company’s employees had a problem taking out a loan in 2014. “They found out that there already was a great of loan in their name as they tried to take out a loan for personal purpose. So informed our director and he said the problem had been solved already.”

Another deputy director Valid Abdullayev said he had sent the employees to the bank to take out loan, upon the order of Ibrahim Huseynov.

Employee Rahib Hajiyev said AZN 440,000 had been taken on his name but that the amount was paid off in 2013.

Another employee Emil Nasibov said he was unaware of the signing of the credit contract. “I did as they had order me to. I went to the bank and signed the document, without checking what that was for. The day I tried to take out some AZN 4,000 loan, I found out that I had AZN 1,250,000 on my name.”

The former treasurer of the bank’s Narimanov Branch Irada Jafarova and the head of the marketing department of the same branch Galib Rzayev also gave a testimony at the process.

The trial will be resumed on September 2.

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).