A former assistant attaché faces seven years in prison for smuggling 70 kg of gold

In Azerbaijan, the state prosecutor has requested a seven-year prison sentence for Gahraman Shamil oglu Mammadov, a former senior assistant to the military attaché, who was detained in Turkey with 70 kg of gold. According to Report, the completion of the trial was announced at the Baku Military Court, presided over by Judge Fikret Aliyev.

It is noted that Gahraman Mammadov served as the chief assistant to the military attaché of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the United States.

Mammadov was detained by Turkish law enforcement while taking a taxi to an Istanbul hotel to deliver gold bars to a conspirator.

He was prosecuted under Articles 12.1, 206.3.2, 12.1-1, 206.3.3 (smuggling committed by an Azerbaijani citizen outside the country as part of a group of persons by prior conspiracy using official position) and 12.1-1, 341.1 (abuse of office or exceeding official powers committed by an Azerbaijani citizen outside the country) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.

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