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The trial of the criminal case against the person accused of fraud against 26 people by posing as the deputy head of the urban development and project planning department of the State Housing Development Agency (MİDA) has ended.

As reported by Oxu.Az, the trial of Mirdamed Azizov’s criminal case was held in the Baku Court of Grave Crimes under the chairmanship of Judge Rasim Sadikhov.

From January 2022 to February 2024, Mirdamed Azizov, in order to seize someone else’s property, presented himself as a competent and official person to those who contacted him in connection with the creation of a preferential electronic account for the purchase of apartments in the Yeni Yasamal residential complex, built by MİDA on the territory of the residential complex of the same name in the Yasamal district of Baku, as well as providing assistance in purchasing apartments at a favorable price below the market value.

In the criminal case, 26 people were recognized as victims. MİDA is also one of the victims.

Mirdamed Azizov was brought to the investigation as an accused under Articles 178.3.2 (fraud causing major damage) and 310 (appropriation of official powers) of the Criminal Code, a preventive measure in the form of arrest was chosen against him.

During the trial, Mirdamed did not pay the victims 431,600 manat and did not reach reconciliation with them.

According to the verdict, Mirdamed Azizov was deprived of liberty for 8 years.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation granted the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan to extradite four Azerbaijani citizens, they were extradited to Azerbaijan, Report informs, citing the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan.

According to the information of the department, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention “On Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Cases” of October 7, 2002, the requests of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan to extradite citizens of Azerbaijan – Orujov Emil Mail oglu, Alekperov Babek Faig oglu, Gurbanov Baloglan Yashar oglu and Mamedov Vagif Elyaz oglu – were satisfied by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.

“Reasonable suspicions were established with respect to the said persons in committing crimes stipulated by the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In this regard, decisions were made to bring them as defendants. Since they were hiding from the investigation, they were put on the international wanted list,” the Prosecutor General’s Office emphasizes.

All four, detained in the territory of the Russian Federation, were extradited to Azerbaijan under the escort of a special unit of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice.