Gahraman Mammadov, a former senior assistant to the Azerbaijani military attaché in the United States, who was detained in Istanbul with 70 kg of gold, has been sentenced to six years in prison. According to Report, the sentence was announced at a trial held in the Baku Military Court under the presidency of Judge Fikret Aliyev.
Mammadov was a senior assistant to the military attaché of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the United States.
He was detained by Turkish law enforcement while taking a taxi to an Istanbul hotel to deliver gold bars to a man with whom he was in cahoots.
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 pre-arranged group of persons using his 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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