Network of illegal online casinos exposed in Azerbaijan

The Main Department for Combating Cybercrime under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan conducted a large-scale operation against criminal groups specializing in organizing illegal online betting and gambling, Oxu.Az reports with reference to the MIA. The investigation was initiated based on operational data on the involvement of citizens in online gambling through specially created pages on social networks.

As a result of the operation, Agil Mammadzade and members of the leading by him group – Orkhan Gozalov, Elmar Gozalov, Tajir Mammadzade and Emil Amrakhli – were detained. Ulvi Mammadov, the head of the second criminal group operating under a similar scheme, was also detained.

The investigation established that the detainees maintained close ties with the organizers of illegal bookmakers and other gambling games based abroad. They received secret passwords to access gambling games posted on the website fastloto.com and other Internet resources.

Using the data obtained, the criminals created virtual cash desks under the names Kral Kazino and others on popular social platforms, where they involved citizens in gambling for a monetary reward.

During searches conducted on the basis of court decisions in secret offices, apartments and storage facilities of the group members, law enforcement officers seized a significant amount of electronic evidence, bank cards, mobile phones with foreign numbers and other material evidence confirming criminal activity.

Based on this fact, the Main Directorate initiated criminal cases under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. The court chose a preventive measure in the form of arrest of the leaders of both criminal networks – Agil Mammadzade, Ulvi Mammadov and other defendants in the case.

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