An Azerbaijani court resumed the trial in the criminal case involving former heads of department of the liquidated Ministry of National Security (MNS) Subahir Gurbanov, Teymur Guliyev, Natavan Mirvatova, other officials Fuzuli Aliyev, Zaur Mammadov, Natiq Aliyev, Farhad Atayev, Anar Shiraliyev, Eshqin Aliyev, and Elshad Azizov on Thursday.
Witness Shahin Mammadov testified in court, Gurbanov’s attorney Azer Taghiyev told APA.
Mammadov said he engaged in gold sales and that he and his business partner were detained by MNS forces.
“I paid them $30,000 for my release and another $15,000 for retaking my gold,” he said.
Gurbanov’s attorneys Azer Taghiyev, Ilkin Mustafayev, and Adil Ismayilov made petitions, arguing that they were arrested by the MNS for engaging in illegal gold trade. They added that the court must refer to prosecutors over these facts.
The jury said they will ponder this fact at the end of the process.
The process will be resumed on April 4.
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An Azerbaijani court resumed the trial in the criminal case involving former heads of department of the liquidated Ministry of National Security (MNS) Subahir Gurbanov, Teymur Guliyev, Natavan Mirvatova, other officials FuzuliAliyev, Zaur Mammadov, Natiq Aliyev, Farhad Atayev, Anar Shiraliyev, Eshqin Aliyev, and Elshad Azizov on Thursday.
Lawyer Azer Taghiyev told journalists that victims Aslan Jahangirov and Elkhan Huseynov gave testimonies at the trial.
Jahangirov said he bought gold jewelleries worth of 95,000 manats from Dubai.
Jahangirov said he gave them to Elkhan Huseynov to bring to the country, and he stayed in Dubai.
“When Huseynov arrived in Baku, accused persons Fuzuli Aliyev and Natig Aliyev brought him to the MNS. Then Jahangirov arrived in Baku and was also brought to the MNS. They accused him of smuggling and demanded 50,000 manats for not launching a criminal case. He gave that money,” added the victim.
Huseynov gave a similar testimony.
Answering the questions, Jahangirov said he doesn’t know Subahir Gurbanov.
The lawyers said that Jahangirov filed a civil lawsuit against Subahir Gurbanov and other accused persons.
The trial will be continued in the afternoon.
According to the indictment, the above-mentioned persons have abused their official powers as an organized group in the years 2004 to 2015.
They are accused of causing psychological and physical harm to entrepreneurs, demanding a large sum of money in exchange for releasing them, threatening their relatives with violence, arrest, and releasing embarrassing information about them. By this means, they managed to appropriate of 162 victims a total of 18,437,000 manats as well as monetary funds worth 6,449,000 manats, jewelry and real estate worth 5,693,000 manats, taking 5,295,000 manats in the form of bribe, and embezzling 1,000,000 allocated from the state budget.
The court ordered seizure on property and cash worth of 21,528,000 manats, as well as real estate worth of 20,971,000 manats, vehicles worth of 272,000 manats, jewelry and other valuable goods worth of 42,000 manats, cash worth of 88,000 manats, 88,000 US dollars and 5,000 euros belonging to the defendants – Subahir Gurbanov, Fizuli Aliyev, Zaur Mammadov, Natig Aliyev, Teymur Guliyev, Natavan Murvatova and the others.
They are charged under articles 145.3 (illegal imprisonment on negligence ended with death of the victim or other serious consequences), 178.3.1, 178.3.2 (swindle committed by organized group with causing damage on a large scale), 179.3.1, 179.3.2 (embezzlement by an organized group on a large scale), 181.3.1, 181.3.2 (robbery, committed by an organized group, with a view to seizing the property on a large scale), 182.3.1, 182.3.2 (extortion, committed by an organized group in order to obtain property on a large scale), 228.4 (illegal purchase, selling, storage and carrying fire arms, bladed weapons), 302.1, 302.2 (infringement of the legislation on operative-search activity with the use of technical means, intended for secret information), 311.3.1, 311.3.2, 311.3.3, 311.3.4 (reception of a bribe, committed by a group of persons or an organized group repeatedly or on a large scale, using threats), 313 (service forgery), 320.1, 320.2 (fake of official documents and use of obviously counterfeit documents) and 341.2.1, 341.2.2, 341.2.3 (abusing authority, excess or inactivity of authority, committed by a group of persons with the use of weapons, resulted in grave consequences).
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