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An exhibition organized by the Veyseloglu Group of Companies in partnership with the YAŞAT Foundation and the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan has opened at the prestigious Q-Gallery Baku Art Gallery (Gyz Galasy Gallery). This charitable initiative is carried out jointly with the Q-Gallery art gallery, trend.az reports.

The exhibition presents about forty works of both well-known masters in the country and relatively young Azerbaijani artists. Most of the funds (70 percent) from the sale of paintings will be transferred to the YAŞAT Foundation, the rest will go to the authors of the works. The exhibition will run until the end of October.

Such an exhibition-sale is held on the initiative of the Veyseloglu Group of Companies for the second year in a row. The main idea of ​​the exhibition is to support family members of soldiers who died during the Patriotic War of 2020, and veterans of military operations aimed at restoring the territorial integrity of our country.

A judicial investigation has begun on the criminal case of the former representative of the head of the Executive Power of the Goychay region in the city administrative-territorial district Rashad Shukurov, oxu.az reports citing APA.

At the meeting of the Sheki Grave Crimes Court, chaired by Judge Nahid Mirzoev, the indictment was read out. The indictment states that the former representative of the head of the Goychay Regional Executive Office for the Goychay City Administrative-Territorial District Rashad Shukurov, while working as the head of the department for work with local self-government bodies of the Executive Office, abusing his powers, entered into an agreement with other officials of the structure headed by him. He received bribes in various amounts from individual officials in his office, threatening them with dismissal if they refused to pay him bribes in exchange for the opportunity to continue their work.

It was established that the damage caused by his criminal actions amounted to 800,000 manats. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges and stated that he would testify on various episodes during the trial.

On October 25, 2022, an attempt to smuggle drugs into the Republic of Azerbaijan was stopped at the service area of ​​the frontier outpost of the Goytepe frontier detachment of the frontier troops of the State Border Service located near the Jafarli village of the Jalilabad region, APA reports citing the press center of the State Border Service.

So, the border guards noticed two people who approached the engineering barrier near the state border, despite the order of the border guards to stop and a warning shot in the air, the border violators did not obey the order and fled in the opposite direction. The outpost was alerted, the territory was cordoned off.

As a result of operational-search activities in the border zone, a bundle with 17 kg of narcotic substances was found (10 kg of “marijuana”, 2 kg of 100 grams of “opium” and 4 kg of 900 grams of “methadone-40”).