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Tsunami of corruption

“Investigation, court deal with me during the period offer it was said that you should pay back all that you have collected, the punishment will be light, you will be in prison for one or two years, and then you will be released with one third. I didn’t agree, I thought, where can I earn that money while I’m free? Of course, nowhere, it was a chance, it fell into my hands. If you have money, you can live like a man in prison. Therefore, I did not agree with the investigator’s proposal, they gave me a job for 7 years…”

These words were spoken by a former official who spent several years of his life in prison in a conversation with an employee of Pressklub.az. According to him, he has a good income from the rented facilities, he did not suffer in prison, and now his livelihood is very good.

These ideas can be called the manifesto of the average corrupt official in Azerbaijan. They look at the position as an opportunity to get rich, they try to stay in position longer by all means, they share a part of what they stole from the state with their superiors, and the rest are invested and kept for the “dark day”. Most officers the prospect of prison for them is not scary, to put it more precisely, that they will one day resign, inspector they know very well that they will be questioned in front of them and that they will go to prison. But what business in Azerbaijan does not have risks and dangers? Or, in which business, in which job can you get rich so easily?!

For many years, the government has been carrying out reforms in various fields, changing the legislation, trying to reduce the contact between officials and citizens, and expanding the scope of the ASAN Service model, but it is not possible to prevent and reduce huge corruption. On the contrary, as the country’s income increases, the amount of stolen funds also increases. Ministers, their deputies, execution heads imprisonment is done, even state institutions cancellation is done, divided, combined, young personnel are recruited, but hand Everyone who has money tries to steal and rob. Azerbaijan agenda 20 has been full of such events for nearly a year. What happened in this country?

Former Minister of Transport Ziya Mammadov fired, state agency cancellation done, the minister’s business empire has changed hands, his holdings and banks have been closed, he is free;

All the management staff of the Ministry of Communications and High Technologies were punished, most of them imprisonment hundreds of millions of manats were returned to the budget, the name and management of the institution were changed 2-3 times. None of these officials are currently in prison;

National The entire leadership of the Ministry of Security was also punished. imprisonment done, institution cancellation and two new state institutions were created. Minister Eldar Mahmudov was involved in the investigation, but remained free. What did this organized group, rooted in the state, not do? Kidnapping, racketeering, illegal extortion, in short, all kinds of mafias crime deeds. At the moment, several people from the leadership are in prison, the former minister was not punished, most of those who were imprisoned are now free;

Labor and Population Social Mass arrests were also made in the Ministry of Defense, including ex-minister Salim Muslimov, who spent almost a year in prison and is currently free;

An operation was carried out at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the heads of the department were arrested, and they were released from prison shortly after, to their children USAMinister who bought an apartment for 4 million dollars Elmar No one told Mammadyarov “you have an eyebrow”;

The financiers of the Ministry of Defense and those who supervised their work were arrested. 10It became known that nearly 0 million funds were stolen;

Two operations were conducted in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, minister Abulfas Garayev was fired, although there were statements in the investigation and court that he directly led the corruption operations, he was not arrested. Several of the persons arrested are at large;

Customs Committee head Trip Mehdiyev was fired, some members of his team were arrested, but he is free;

Head of “Azerkhalcha”, 8 Mayor and their entourage was arrested;

These days, anti-corruption operations Nakhchivan It is continued in the Autonomous Republic. Tens of millions funds was stolen, the interests of the state were severely damaged, several officials were arrested, etc.

Nothing different, the same scenario, the same theft, probably the same method of punishment will be chosen.

For two decades, the fight against corruption in Azerbaijan has continued in this form, although the government is aware of its ineffectiveness, it did not intend to test its methods and measures used by the civilized world.

It is considered sufficient to arrest or dismiss an official, confiscate his accumulated wealth. But when these crimes were committed, why did the budget control institutions, financial control, and law enforcement agencies not fulfill their duties? If hundreds of millions of state money were stolen before their eyes, then they have become participants in this crime in some form. Otherwise, how could the head of a small institution steal 146 million?

For example, the Ministry of Finance, the Chamber of Accounts audits state institutions throughout the year, report requires etc. How is it that the mentioned terrible crimes are not revealed until the arrival of the DTX black masked men?

Of course, these are rhetorical questions, civil servants are still not required to declare their income in Azerbaijan, the Competition Code has been in existence for 22 years, and if it fails to pass the parliament, the government bears all the responsibility here.

If there was a real fight against corruption in the country, first of all the government structures parliament control would be ensured, the country’s independent parliament could strictly control where every penny of the state is spent.

Or in Azerbaijan court if the government had not turned into a system that is as corrupt as it is now, working under the dictates of the prosecutor’s office, the level of corruption in the country would not be at this level.

The responsibility of the prosecutor’s office is no less than that. How does it happen that the General Prosecutor’s Office, which was involved in all indictments of law enforcement agencies, remained silent on the crimes of high-ranking Chinese officials and their non-punishment? For example, why were Eldar Mahmudov, Salim Muslimov, and Abulfas Garayev not arrested, and why did their close friends taste freedom after a short period of time?

There are more rhetorical questions. It is no secret that the legislation in Azerbaijan is of a formal nature, the punishment, dismissal and detention of officials are determined by other criteria. At present, there are huge corrupt people in state institutions who are experiencing a period of “flowering”.

As long as the system has not changed, we cannot talk about the fight against corruption in the country. We will see many such noisy arrests…

Turgut

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