Trial of criminal gang that smuggled precious metals to Georgia begins

A criminal case against a criminal group that includes officials, initiated on the fact of smuggling and other serious crimes, has been sent to court, APA reports, citing information distributed by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

It is reported that the preliminary investigation has been completed on the criminal case initiated by the Main Department for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General’s Office on the basis of the facts of smuggling committed by individuals and officials involved in it, revealed by the State Customs Committee.
During the investigation, grounds were revealed to suspect that citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan, who are members of an organized criminal group – the actual heads of Karvan 313 and Twins LLCs Telman Ibrahimov and Arif Rzayev, former customs officer Tevekkul Bayramov, as well as Shahin Soltanov, driver Rovshan Ibrahimov, citizen of the Republic of Turkey Shener Bilgi and others, while they were supposed to declare, on the basis of customs documents and mark with various excise stamps goods intended for export worth more than 17 million manats, imported into the country by about 60 vehicles, and export them to their destination in another country, in 2023-2024, violating the route, replaced these goods with copper and other precious metals, and then transported them through the Girmizi Korpu customs post to the territory of Georgia.

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