Individuals selling SAT questions in Turkey and Azerbaijan arrested

The organizers of the illegal sale of examination questions under the international program, which gives the right to enter foreign universities, were arrested, APA reports citing information from the General Prosecutor’s Office.

It is reported that as a result of the operational-search activities carried out by the Main Directorate for Combating Corruption under the General Prosecutor’s Office together with the relevant structures of the State Security Service (SSS) in relation to the head of the company, who illegally organized the sale of questions of the international examination program, which gives the right to enter foreign universities , a criminal case has been initiated in the Main Directorate under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code and an investigation is underway.

In the course of operational activities, grounds for suspicion were identified that the director of Uğur İstanbul 2012 LLC Mammadov Jahid Sabit oglu, having entered into a criminal conspiracy with Aliyev Shahin Sevindik oglu and other persons who provided individual assistance in educating citizens abroad, illegally received for a large amount of money from educational centers in Izmir and Istanbul, licensed to conduct such exams, questions constituting a commercial secret and the information base of the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) exam of the Educational Testing Service of an international private organization ” College Board.

The General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan asks citizens who are faced with such illegal situations to report this to the call center “961” of the General Prosecutor’s Office or to the hotline “161” of the Main Anti-Corruption Department under the General Prosecutor’s Office.

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