Site manager sentenced for blackmail

On January 18, 2022, the trial in the case of the founder of Azadinfo.az LLC, Mahir Alekberov (Khattab), accused of extortion, ended in the Nasimi District Court, oxu.az reports.

At the trial, presided over by Judge Azer Tagiyev, a verdict was read, according to which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 3 years and 6 months.

So, according to the information of the General Prosecutor’s Office, on September 8, 2021, the head of the above website announced the acting. Ramiz Geyushov, chairman of the Binagadi regional organization of the New Azerbaijan Party, that unethical video footage with the participation of the latter would be distributed on news platforms, and offered to meet. Since R. Geyushov did not appear at the meeting, M. Alekberov on the same day deliberately published on his website a video with disgraceful and degrading information.

M. Alekberov managed to get a meeting with R. Geyushov to prevent the dissemination of this information, but he was caught red-handed while receiving money in the amount of 2,000 manats in order to remove the video from his website.

On September 9, 2021, the Prosecutor General’s Office initiated a criminal case on this fact, M. Alekberov was detained as a suspect.

On September 10, 2021, he was charged under Article 182.1 (extortion) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. By a court decision, a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen against him.

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