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Former chairperson of Lankaran municipality Aygun Mirzoyeva has been sentenced, oxu.az reports. Lankaran District Court found her guilty and sentenced her to three years in prison. In addition, the court deprived her of the right to hold leadership and financially responsible positions in state bodies and local government bodies for a period of 3 years.

A. Mirzoyeva was brought to criminal liability under Articles 179.2.3, 179.2.4 (embezzlement or misappropriation committed by a person using his official position and causing significant damage) and 308.1 (misappropriation of state budget funds, targeted budget funds or extra-budgetary state funds) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

A Georgian citizen wanted internationally has been extradited from Poland to Azerbaijan, Oxu.Az reports with reference to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan, successful cooperation with Polish law enforcement agencies in the fight against crime continues.

In accordance with the requirements of the European Convention on Extradition of December 13, 1957, the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office to extradite Georgian citizen Ulpet Fizuli oglu Agajanov was granted by the Lodz District Court of the Republic of Poland.

A decision was made to bring Ulpet Agajanov as an accused due to reasonable suspicions that he had committed the crime of premeditated murder as part of a premeditated group of persons. He was put on the international wanted list because he had fled from the investigation. In October 2024, Agajanov was identified and arrested in the city of Kutno in Poland.

On April 3, 2025, U. Agajanov was transported from Poland to Azerbaijan accompanied by a special convoy of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice.

Heads of companies that failed to return about 100 million manats from agricultural exports to the country have been put on wanted list

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan has opened criminal cases against a number of companies that failed to return about 100 million manats in foreign currency earnings from the export of various agricultural products, Report informs citing the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

In particular, in a criminal case being investigated by the Narimanov District Prosecutor’s Office of Baku, reasonable suspicions were revealed regarding the failure to return more than 14 million US dollars to the account of an authorized bank in Azerbaijan, received from the export of agricultural products on consignment by the company “My Vegetables” MMC.

The head of this company, Gunduz Huseynov, has been charged under Articles 208.2.1, 208.2.2 (failure to return a large sum of foreign currency from abroad by a group of persons by prior agreement) and 32.3, 308.2 (organization of abuse of office that resulted in grave consequences) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Taking into account the choice of a preventive measure in the form of arrest against him in another criminal case, he has been declared wanted.

In addition, in a criminal case investigated by the Sabunchu District Prosecutor’s Office of Baku, reasonable suspicions were revealed regarding the failure to return more than 4 million US dollars to the account of an authorized bank in Azerbaijan, received from the export of non-ferrous metals on consignment by the company “Aroma Service” MMC. The head of this company, Ramil Rafig oglu Khalafov, has been charged and declared internationally wanted.

In total, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, as a result of measures taken by the district prosecutor’s offices of Zagatala, Balaken, Gabala, Khojavend, Imishli, Hajigabul, Samukh, Lankaran, Agjabedi and Yevlakh, more than 24 million US dollars of funds received by some business entities from the export of agricultural products were returned to bank accounts in Azerbaijan.

A man suspected of a series of thefts from country houses has been detained in the Nardaran settlement of the Sabunchu district of Baku, Report informs citing information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Officers of the 42nd police station of the Sabunchu district police department managed to identify and detain previously convicted 45-year-old Seymur Talibov, suspected of stealing property worth 150,000 manat from two houses.

He confessed to stealing gold, a laptop, and other valuables, and also said that he planned to sell the jewelry in parts.

Part of the stolen items was found and seized as evidence. A criminal case has been opened, and an investigation is underway.