{"id":42535,"date":"2026-02-26T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=42535"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:56:20","slug":"a-fake-journalist-who-extorted-money-from-businessmen-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=42535&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A fake journalist who extorted money from businessmen arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Shahriar Hasanzade, who posed as a television channel employee and extorted money from business representatives under the threat of disseminating incriminating materials, has been arrested in Lankaran, <a href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/ru\/proisshestviya\/v-lyankyarane-zaderzhan-lzhezhurnalist-vymogavshij-dengi-u-biznesa\">Report<\/a> informs, citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs press service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He contacted officials of various companies and organizations, claiming to have prepared a report that could damage their business reputation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In exchange for not disclosing these materials on television and social media, the perpetrator demanded various sums of money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that the investigation into Hasanzade&#8217;s illegal actions is ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shahriar Hasanzade, who posed as a television channel employee and extorted money from business representatives under the threat of disseminating incriminating materials, has been arrested in Lankaran, Report informs, citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs press service. He contacted officials of various companies and organizations, claiming to have prepared a report that could damage their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42536,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42535\/revisions\/42536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}