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Based on the information received about violations at the Center for the Development of Children and Youth of the Gazakh District, the prosecutor’s office conducted an investigation, oxu.az reports with reference to the district prosecutor’s office.

It is noted that during the investigations, reasonable suspicions were revealed that officials of the Center unreasonably paid wages to persons who did not actually carry out labor activities, embezzled and wasted significant budget funds in other ways.

Based on this fact, the prosecutor’s office of the Gazakh region opened a criminal case under Article 179.2.4 (misappropriation or embezzlement causing significant damage) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.

In Agdash, illegal actions of the head of the municipality and the director of the LLC were revealed, oxu.az reports with reference to information disseminated by the Agdash district prosecutor’s office.

The chairman of the municipality of the village of Kotavan, Rashad Samedov, having exceeded his official powers, without a decision of the general meeting of the municipality, entered into a construction agreement with Abadlyg-2012 LLC, and also, together with the director of the LLC Ali Dzhabiev, arbitrarily carried out construction work on an agricultural land plot without the right of joint ownership, use or rental. Reasonable suspicions have been established that they misappropriated state property on a large scale.

Rashad Samedov was brought as a defendant under articles 179.3.2, 188.4. and 309.1 of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan, and a preventive measure in the form of arrest was chosen against him.

Investigative measures are ongoing to determine compensation for material damage.

A hearing on the criminal case of Jahangir Ganbarov, accused of fraud worth millions of manats, was held at the Baku Court of Serious Crimes, chaired by Judge Sabina Mammadzadeh, oxu.az reports.

The defendant’s lawyers, Shaig Mirzoev and Rashad Abdiyev, filed a motion to order a forensic accounting examination, indicating that all the money sent by Jahangir Ganbarov was transferred through banks. The defense also emphasized that the main victim in the case, individual entrepreneur Akhmed Mutallimov, was a direct intermediary in the illegal withdrawal of large sums in national currency from the country. In this regard, the lawyers petitioned for Ganbarov himself to be recognized as a victim.

The court, after a short deliberation, considered the defense’s motions unfounded and rejected them. Then prosecutor Ziya Mansurov announced the indictment. The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him.

The judicial investigation of the criminal case against Khabib Kaltayev, who was detained by Interpol and taken to Azerbaijan, has been completed, oxu.az reports. At the last meeting in the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, a judgement was read out, according to which Kh. Kaltaev was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison.

The investigation against Khabib Kaltayev was carried out by the State Security Service of Azerbaijan. He was accused under Article 283-1 (creating a stable group for the purpose of participating in armed conflicts outside the borders of the Republic of Azerbaijan (AR) of the Criminal Code.

In 2015, Kh. Kaltaev, while driving a VAZ-2104 car, committed a serious accident, which resulted in the death of two people. For this criminal act he was sentenced to seven years in prison.

After his release from prison, Khabib Kaltaev left the country and joined armed forces in Syria.