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A group smuggling psychotropic medications has been detained in Azerbaijan, the Interior Ministry told APA. The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime in an operation detained a group of smugglers. They are the Georgian citizens Heydar Rustamov, Arifa Rustamova, Azerbaijani citizens Javidan Huseynov, and Shahin Gurbanov, who had smuggled psychotropic medications to Azerbaijan from Georgia and […]

According to APA, the preliminary investigation into the criminal case of 12 persons, who were arrested over the incidents that took place in Baku’s Nardaran township on 26 November 2015, has been completed. The case will be sent to court after lawyers review the case materials. As a result of the operation held by the […]

On 08.11.2016 Baku Court of Grave Crimes held a hearing in the criminal case of Vidadi Zeynalov, former head of the Office of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Communications and High Technologies, and other people arrested alongside him. At the hearing presided over by judge Afgan Hajiyev, Zeynalov’s lawyer Elkhan Suleymanli asked the court for time as […]

Baku police have detained a criminal group charged with multiple thefts and drug trafficking, APA reports. As a result of operational search activities, group members – previously convicted Absheron resident Feyruz Novruzov, Baku residents Natiq Isayev, Ismayil Yusifov, Neftchala district residents Vusal Asgarov, Shahmar Abdulov and Zangilan district resident Vuqar Salimov were detained.   Heroin and opium […]

Baku Court of Grave Crimes on November 4, 2016 held a preliminary hearing in the case of NIDA Civic Movement member Bayram Mammadov charged with drug trafficking, APA informs.   The court specified the defendant’s profile data. Attorney Elchin Sadigov asked for termination of the case or replacement of Mammadov’s pretrial detention with house arrest. The court denied the petition. The court […]

On November 3, 2016 the Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations, Ministry of Internal Affairs and law-enforcement authorities jointly conducted raids in nine religious stores in the Sabunchu, Nizami, Khatai, Nasimi and Surakhani districts of Baku, APA reports.   The purpose of the raids was to determine whether the stores engaged in selling religious […]

In order to find and seize firearms, explosives and ammunition illegally stored in certain people, another special operation was conducted by law enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan in Baku’s Nardaran settlement, the Interior Ministry told APA on November 2, 2016. In result of operation one people, who was previously convicted, Nardaran resident Orkhan Gasimov was detained as a […]

  Ex-chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir Hajiyev appropriated and took out hundreds of millions of dollars from the country. According to Day.Az, this was said to Trend by the Prosecutor General’s Office on Tuesday. On 19 July the criminal case of ex-Chairman of the Board of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir […]

Baku Court of Grave Crimes held on November 1, 2016 a hearing in the criminal case of six people who are accused of stealing almost 500,000 manats from a house in Baku, APA reports.   The personal data of the accused were clarified during the hearing. The hearing will be continued on November 10, 2016. […]