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Azerbaijan’s law enforcement agencies have issued an international arrest warrant for a pawnshop owner who fled the country after defrauding hundreds of citizens, APA reports. Tahira Alaz, 52, is convicted of swindling, according to the notice posted on Interpol’s website.   According to information, she was an owner of a pawnshop situated at 192 F.K. […]

The chief of staff of the Ministry of Communications and High Technologies Vidadi Zeynalov has been sentenced to 3-month pretrial detention under the court decision, APA reports. An order has already been signed on Zeynalov’s dismissal from his post. Zeynalov’s detention is reportedly related to the activity of the former head of Baku Telephone Communications […]

Azerbaijan’s law enforcement bodies have issued an interational arrest warrant for a tourism agency director on charges of embezzlement on a large-scale, APA reports. Ahmad Mammadov, 35, is charged under Article 178 (fraud) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. According to information obtained by APA, Mammadov was a director of Happy Group travel agency in Azerbaijan. […]

On 15 October 2015 Azerbaijani border guards detained a member of “Islamic State” terrorist organization while attempting to illegally cross the country’s border with Georgia, the State Border Service told APA. According to the information, Beylegan district resident Shirinov Babek (1990), who previously fought within IS terrorist organization in Syria, was detained in the Uzungazmalar frontier […]

The Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a criminal case and created an investigative operational group in connection with acts of abuse of official powers and other offences committed by different officials of the Ministry of National Security, the Prosecutor General’s Office told APA. Investigative operations have brought up suspicions of a group of ministry’s officials abusing […]

The Baku Court on Graves Crimes on Monday 25, 2015 began the trial of Belgian citizens Maput Martial and Hongla Samuel on charges of selling fake money, APA reports. The public prosecutor at the hearing announced the bill of indictment. The convicts denied their guilt. The hearing will be resumed on October 28. Note that, […]

172 drug-related cases were revealed as a result of measures taken by Azerbaijan’s customs authorities (as well as other law enforcement authorities) in the first nine months of 2015 to prevent drug smuggling to the country, says APA with reference to the report submitted by the Main Department for Customs Violations of the State Customs Committee to […]

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of National Security conducted an antiterrorist operation, detaining five persons involved in illegal armed groups, the ministry’s public relations department told APA. As a result of the operation, citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan – Guliyev Namig Shahid oghlu, Hajiverdiyev Khalid Aliagha oghlu, Ahmadov Tahir Mahir oghlu, Asgarov Elvin Asgar oghlu and Mahmudov Anar […]