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Last year, 249 employees of the State Service for Mobilization and Conscription of Azerbaijan were held accountable for violating the law, Oxu.Az reports with reference to the department. In accordance with the decree of President Ilham Aliyev on the approval of the “National Action Plan to Strengthen the Fight against Corruption for 2022-2026”, since May 2023, the State Service has continued comprehensive measures to combat corruption, increase transparency and improve the regulatory framework.

Thus, official inspections were conducted with respect to officials who violated the requirements of the law, as a result of which disciplinary measures and organizational and staffing measures were taken against 78 employees in 2023, and against 249 last year. Including 13 employees were dismissed with negative motivation.

Materials regarding 22 people on 15 facts in 2023 and 95 people on 51 facts in 2024 were sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan for a procedural decision.

Information about the unjustified prosecution of Ilkin Babayev by the Main Department for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Azerbaijan  and the release of other persons from liability has been spread on some pages in social networks. In this regard, I. Babayev’s mother Solmaz Zeynalova posted an appeal on social networks, Oxu.Az reports, citing the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Based on the appeals of numerous individuals, a criminal case was initiated and investigated in the Main Department under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of the AR. As a result, reasonable suspicions arose that Ilkin Babayev, as part of an organized group together with Eldar Muradov, Mobil Hasanzade, Allahgulu Mamedov and Asef Agazade, fraudulently appropriated more than 700,000 manats from 32 individuals under the pretext of employment, registration of land documents, recognition of educational documents, etc., as well as more than 240,000 manats from 7 individuals, in a criminal connection with Nahid Shamshirov.

For these acts, Ilkin Babayev and other individuals were charged under Articles 178.3.2 (fraud causing major damage), 310 (appropriation of official powers) and other articles of the Criminal Code, and on May 27, 2023, the criminal case was sent to the Baku Serious Crimes Court. The trial is currently ongoing.

Nahid Shamshirov was also charged under Articles 178.3.2, 310 and other articles of the Criminal Code, was placed on the international wanted list for evading investigation, and by decision of the Binagadi District Court, a preventive measure in the form of arrest in absentia was chosen for him.

Previously convicted Evez Jafarov and Sureyya Balayeva have been detained in Sumgait, suspected of stealing 7,320 manat from a woman’s jacket pocket in one of the city’s shopping centers, Report informs citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan.

The department noted that the detainees are also suspected of stealing repair tools and building materials worth 1,200 manat from a private home.

An investigation is underway into the facts.

Azerbaijan extradited to Monaco 33-year-old Indian citizen Rathore Devansha, who was put on the international wanted list by the law enforcement agencies of the Principality on charges of committing economic crimes, Report informs citing the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The man was detained in June 2024 on the territory of Azerbaijan, after which a preventive measure in the form of arrest was chosen for him.

The decision on extradition was made and implemented in accordance with the European Convention on Extradition and Additional Protocols. The detainee was handed over to the authorities of Monaco accompanied by a special convoy of the Penitentiary Service of Azerbaijan.