In connection with the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, 431 candidates have been nominated for deputies, APA reports, citing the Chairman of the Central Election Commission Mazahir Panahov.
The candidacies of 261 people who nominated themselves for deputies were approved, 213 of them were issued signature sheets. 9 people have already filled out the subscription forms and returned them.
On July 13 and 14, police officers discovered 36 kg of drugs in Azerbaijan, Report informs citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to the information, more than 3 kg of heroin, about 31 kg of marijuana, more than 1 kg of opium, more than 1.8 kg of methamphetamine, as well as 16 bushes of cultivated hemp were seized from illicit trafficking.
The appeal court in the case of Sakit Alishov and Shahin Guliyev, accused of extorting 200,000 manats by using threats from the owner of a cafe in Baku, has ended, oxu.az reports with reference to Unikal. The corresponding decision was announced at a meeting chaired by judge of the Baku Court of Appeal Ibrahim Ibrahimli.
According to the decision, the appeal of the accused S. Alishov and Sh. Guliyev was not satisfied. A resident of the Jalilabad district, S. Alishov, and a native of the Gabala district, Sh. Guliyev, injured the owner of the Sheikh Lakhmajun doner shop, located in the Nasimi district of the capital, by hitting him on the head with a blunt metal object. Then they tied his young son to a chair in the basement and, threatening him with a knife, demanded 200,000 manats.
A criminal case was initiated against both individuals under Article 182.3.2 (extortion by an organized group for the purpose of acquiring property on a large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.
