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A safe containing 53,000 manats and gold worth 10,000 manats was stolen from a home in Baku on October 30, 2016. In an operation conducted by law-enforcement authorities, Masalli resident Adigozal Mirzayev, suspected of stealing the safe, has been detained, the Interior Ministry told APA. According to information, the other suspect has been identified.

A criminal case was filed against Ali Abbasov, former Azerbaijani minister of communications and high technologies, and several people working in the companies, which cooperated with the ministry, haqqin.az reports citing Trend Agency. According to the haqqin.az, Abbasov’s case will be considered separately. Abbasov and others are accused under articles 179.3.1 (misappropriation or embezzlement, committed […]

According to APA, today the Baku Court on Grave Crimes has continued a session on criminal case in respect of Giyas Ibrahimov, a member of NIDA Civil Movement, who charged in illegal drug trafficking in big amount. At the court session chaired by Judge Anver Seyidov, G. Ibrahimov made the final statement. He stated that […]

Azerbaijan’s law-enforcement authorities have raided the houses of several people believed to be members of Nur movement, APA informs  As a result of the raid conducted in Sahil settlement, Garadagh district, 159 banned religious books and 9 different magazines were seized from the house of Rizvan Hamidov (1983).  During the operations held in the district’s Lokbatan settlement, a […]

Criminal proceedings have been ceased in the case of Safar Imanov, former head of the Office of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs, as he is wanted for fleeing the country, APA reports.  Safar Imanov is accused of embezzling $170,000 from a citizen under the guise of granting him/her a position of executive authority […]

The Baku Court of Grave Crimes on October 19, 2016 resumed the trial of Taleh Baghirov, Fuad Gahramanli and others. At the hearing presided over by judge Alovsat Abbasov, defendant Abbas Huseynov, imprisoned Rasim Bunyatov and Abulfaz Bunyatov. Then imprisoned Urfan Nabizade testified as a witness. Lawyer Yalchin Imanov said that the injured Bahruz Guliyev, […]

Baku Court of Grave Crimes on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 held a hearing in the criminal case of former judge Fakhraddin Rzayev arrested on fraud charges, APA reports. According to the court decision, Rzayev was sentenced to conditional imprisonment and released in the courtroom.Rzayev has been a judge of Yasamal district court until 2000. Then […]

The preliminary investigation into the criminal case of NIDA Civic Movement member Bayram Mammadov, who was imprisoned for four months on charges of illegal purchase, storage and selling of narcotics, has been completed. The indictment of the criminal case has been sent to the Baku Court of Grave Crimes for consideration. Proceedings into the case […]

Azerbaijan’s Judicial-Legal Council has initiated disciplinary proceedings against a judge over serious shortcomings that caused dissatisfaction of citizens, including procrastination, the Council told APA on October 17, 2016.. Besides, the Judicial-Legal Council dismissed judge of Yasamal district court Akshin Afandiyev, reprimanded judge of Sumgayit city court Ilyas Mahmudov and judge of Zagatala district court Arif Ismayilov over […]

Over the nine months of 2016, 9,137 crimes were recorded, according to a report read out on Saturday, 15 October 2016 at the operational consultations held at Baku City Police Department, 101 gangs arrested in Baku this year, APA reports. Of them, 82.7% were the ones unlikely to pose a public threat or moderately grave and the […]