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Azerbaijan’s law enforcement bodies have caught a narcotic drug dealer red-handed while selling 9 Lyrica pills in a pharmacy in Yasamal district, Baku, the Interior Ministry told APA on Wednesday, 21 September 2016. During the inspection, 3,200 pills of Tramadol, 112 pills of Lyrica, 1,335 pills of Pregabalin, 165 ampoules of Tradolex and 4 vials of Tropicamide […]

On 16 September 2016 Baku Court of Grave Crimes completed the judicial process over three Azerbaijani citizens, who have been charged with fighting among the ranks of “Islamic State” terrorist group and creating an illegal armed group. The accused  Ismayil Surkhayev was sentenced to 11 years, Tehran Musayev to 13 years and Sabuhi Jafarzade to […]

On 16 September 2016 the Baku Court on Grave Crimes completed the hearings on criminal case in respect of E. Hasanov, M. Huseynova and M. Aliyev, who are accused in murder of G. Bagirov, a chief technologist of Baki Taxil Terminal LLC, APA reports. According to a court verdict, each of them was imprisoned to […]

On 15 September 2016 the Baku Court of Grave Crimes completed the trial of those accused of robbing the house of Boris Simanduyev, former chairman of the Mountain Jews religious community in Azerbaijan. The court sentenced the accused – Khalid Seyidov to 12 years, Eldar Avadyayev to 14 years and Joshgun Aliyev to 14.5 years […]

Azerbaijan’s border guards have detained a gang engaging in the smuggling of illegal drugs from Iran to Azerbaijan. As a result of the operative search actions taken at a frontier post in Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli district September 8, 2016 Rashad Mammadov and Bakhtiyar Isayev were detained while attempting to smuggle 535 grams of heroin and 460 grams of […]

In August 2016, Azerbaijan’s border guards detained 398 people wanted by the country’s law-enforcement bodies, the State Border Service told APA on September 12, 2016. The border guards detained 67 people in 51 cases of violation of the state border during the reporting period. 29 are citizens of Azerbaijan, 7 – Ghana, 5 – Iran, 5 – Uzbekistan, 4 […]

According to APA with reference to a lawyer J. Javadli, the measure of restraint in respect of N. Jafarli has been changed. This decision was made by investigative body on 10 September 2016. According to the decision, he was written undertaking not to leave Baku. All charges are remained in force. Earlier, on 12 August […]

On 8 September 2016 Azerbaijan’s Lankaran Court on Grave Crimes completed the hearing on the criminal case of the former investigator of the Zardab District Prosecutor’s Office, Rufat Safarov, who is charged with taking bribe, APA reports. Rufat’s lawyer, Bahruz Bayramov, asked the court for ten days for making a defence speech, a request which the […]

  It is detained and took to investigative body Islam Manafov, a driver, who knocked down employees of the police and the MES and escaped from scene of incident, 1news.az reports. Presently it is going on necessary investigatory actions on the case.

Azerbaijan’s Garadagh district court on 8 September 2016 refused to consider the case of former OMON (special purpose police units) members Elchin Amiraslanov, Arif Kazimov and Safa Poladov.  An appeal will be filed against this decision, a lawyer E. Sadigov told APA. All the three OMON members were sentenced to death in 1996. Later their capital punishment was […]