Individuals who extorted money from citizens under the guise of journalists, threatening to disseminate defamatory information on social networks, have been brought to criminal responsibility.
According to oxu.az, based on appeals from several residents of Sumgayit, Shirvan, Astara and Goychay, employees of the Main Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained the editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine İynə (“Needle”), 62-year-old Baloglan Mirzaliyev, and the editor, 55-year-old Elkhan Heydarov, previously convicted of fraud and extortion.
A criminal case has been opened on this fact, investigative measures are ongoing.
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