Prosecutor General’s Office on suspected banking transactions of RFE/RL Inc Azerbaijan Office

A state body which executes the relevant authority in the prevention of illegally acquired funds has said of the RFE/RL Inc (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) Office in the Republic of Azerbaijan carrying out suspected banking transactions, the Prosecutor General’s Office told haqqin.az.

From 1 January 2010 to 9 December 2014, the head office of the RFE/RL Company has transferred AZN 3,555,688 to the bank accounts of the RFE/RL Inc Office in Azerbaijan.

Some AZN 189,100 out of those funds was withdrawn from treasure by Mirzayev Yahya Hidayat oglu (legal representative), financial manager of the office, and spent officially on a variety of directions.

The facts that only one person, financial manager of the office, withdrew AZN 89 100 cash from depositary, this money was formalized as spending on photographs, video recordings, purchase of drinkable water, tea, sugar, barbershop payments, they didn’t submit reports on individuals’ income to relevant tax authorities, the office distributed the “Fərqli Düşüncə” (Different Thinking) newspaper free of charge are reasonable suspicions to assume that officials of the office appropriated a large amount of funds by preparing fake documents.

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