A trial continues in Baku in a high-profile cybercrime case, the amount of damage in which is estimated at millions of manats, Report informs. At a hearing in the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, one of the defendants, Farhad Gasimov, said that the $700,000 found in the office belonged to his sister and was given to him for safekeeping. The defendant also said that he did not know that the money transfers were illegal. According to him, only five people worked in the company with a salary of about 600 manats.
The next hearing is scheduled for May 30.
So, last year, the Main Department for Combating Cybercrime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted an operation against illegal money transfers in an office in the Yasamal district. Six people were arrested, including brothers Bahadir and Ikram Gasimov and their relative Farhad Gasimov. They are accused of illegal money transfers between Azerbaijan and foreign countries, as well as tax evasion.
About 254 million manats were illegally transferred through the company. During the searches, 1.5 million dollars, 1.4 million manats, firearms and jewelry worth about 1 million manats were seized.
The property of the accused and their family members, including about 100 expensive cars, was seized. The total value of the seized property is estimated at about half a billion manats.
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