“We took bribes from enterprises and gave them to the head of the State Labor Inspectorate” |

The trial of the former minister continued with witness statements

Past labour and population social in the testimony of dozens of witnesses who were interrogated at the trial of Defense Minister Salim Muslimov Karabakh war disabled and martyr from the exaggeration of the figures during the construction of houses for their families, the fact that the official heads of the companies that were declared winners in the tenders of the ministry were not aware of those tenders at all, etc. cases of corruption are mentioned. On November 5, in the court of the ex-minister, statements about this were given again.

To the work of Salim Muslimov Baku It is being tried in the Court of Serious Crimes. Judge This time, chaired by Faig Ganiyev court meeting before Vüsnow Ahmadli testified. According to the witness who said that he is engaged in entrepreneurial activities, the Ministry of Construction Facilities chief He had a friend who met Natig Azizov. That friend Natig Azizova said that if there is work related to house construction, Vüsnow Ahmadli can do that work:

“I also participated in tenders and won. After that, in the fall of 2014, we signed a contract with the ministry to build a house. But they didn’t give me the money, so I refused to do the work.”

According to the witness, in January 2015, the ministry gave him a job worth 140,000 manats:

“There was a devaluation in February. We couldn’t work. In total, the amount of work to be done in the contract is 1 million 10It was 0 thousand manats. But I received 460,000 manat from that money.”

Vusnow Ahmadli said that there were 4 companies in his name and in total 20 he had to build a private house. Later, they checked the work done by him and found a deficiency of 175,000 manats. He added that he paid the damage to the state budget.

Another witness – Elman Safarov, head of Tamir-Tikinti LLC, was Natig Azizov’s compatriot. They were from the same village: “Two private houses were built through my company. “I gave Natig Azizov 12,000 manats for the construction of those houses.”

He emphasized that they founded 6 companies together with other compatriots. These companies also won the tender and built 11 houses in Zagatala district. Natig Azizov was given a total of 66,000 manats for the construction of these 11 houses.

It became clear in the court that Balaverdi Agayev, a resident of Lankaran, who is the head of one of the companies announced as the winner in the ministry’s tenders, does not know what the tender is at all. According to him, the company was opened in his name through his aunt’s son. He doesn’t know anything else.

State Labor Inspector Baku He worked as the chief consultant of the audit sector of the business department with legal entities in the city Elkhan Salimov admitted in his testimony that in the enterprises in the capital area labour by checking whether the requirements of the law have been complied with a bribe they collected. According to him, 2 people went to the inspection together every day. In the enterprises, they checked issues such as whether there was an employment contract with the employees or not, and they found deficiencies. They also received money in the name of covering up the defects.

“The collected money belongs to the State Labor Inspectorate chief Fuad We gave it to Alizadeh. We gave 5 thousand manats every month. He also gave us that money,” Elkhan Salimov said.

Fuad Alizadeh 20Head of the audit department in 2014-05, 2014-2018and the State Labor Inspectorate in the years chief worked.

State Social Khalis Hasanov, the former head of the Hajigabul branch of the Defense Fund, was also interrogated as a witness. It is the previous one court He gave statements similar to those of department heads who were interrogated in their meetings. According to Khalis Hasanov, who said that he was the head of the department from 2014 to 2021, certain defects were discovered during the inspection in the institution he headed: “In order not to exaggerate the defects, the Ministry’s Internal Control Department chief I met with deputy Nizami Khanlarov. I gave him 12,000 manats in his room…”

Another witness, Telman Safarov, was a technical supervisor in the Department of Under Construction of the Ministry. According to him, Karabakh disabled people and martyr there were certain frauds in the repair of the houses built for their families: “I was involved in the repair of the houses. I gave Natig Azizov 5, 9, 15 thousand manats per house. It happened that the repair of the house was indicated in the document for 50,000 manats, but I handed it over for 30,000 manats. The materials used in the repair and construction were also edible…”.

The former minister did not react to any of these opinions voiced in court.

Salim Muslimov’s trial will continue on November 14.

61-year-old Salim Muslimov 20State in 2002-00 Customs Committee vice president, followed by 11 years of State Social He worked as the chairman of the Defense Fund. In 2013, he was appointed the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population. At that time, the State Social Protection Fund was also subordinated to this ministry. he 2018from the position of minister in free was done.

The former minister, who was detained by the State Security Service in February 2021, was released under house arrest in May 2022.

Against Salim Muslimov, accused of 20 million manat embezzlement, embezzlement and bribery A crime 179.4 (especially large embezzlement or embezzlement), 308.2 (abuse of official powers with serious consequences), 311.3.2 and 311.3.3 (repeated large amounts) of the Code of a bribe apple) was charged with items. Up to 14 years in these items imprisonment punishment is provided.

Salim Muslimov paid 20 million of the 27 million manat damage during the investigation period. He was released to house arrest after that payment. However, his health problems were cited as the official reason.