Scandal among former MTN members in prison

The other accused did not support Movlam Shikhaliyev’s opinion

Many years MTNwho headed the Main Investigation Department, who is in prison general Movlam Shikhaliyev and three colonels who worked under him in the ministry – Yasin Mammadov, Sahib Alakbarov and Vusal On Alekbarov’s appeals court the process has started. To their complaint Baku In the Court of Appeals judge Ilgar It is considered under the chairmanship of Murguzov.

Accused ex MTNIn addition to the defendants, the victims also filed an appeal. Some of them are past MTNThey demand that their punishment be aggravated, some of their civil claims be satisfied (reimbursement of the damage caused to them). Even general Family members of Movlam Shikhaliyev also filed an appeal. Because some of the confiscated properties are in their name.

On December 5, at the preparatory meeting of the court, Movlam Shikhaliyev and his lawyer Jeyhun Yusifov addressed this case. judge Ilgar To be reviewed under the chairmanship of Murguzov protest did. They said that this judge He himself once worked in the Public Prosecutor’s Office. His son, Emil Murguzov, is currently working in the State Prosecution Office of the General Prosecutor’s Office. From this point of view, the judge will act in the interest of the prosecution in this case and will not be objective.

“You worked in the General Prosecutor’s Office. At present, your son works in the Prosecution Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office. From 2015 to April 5, 2021 – me imprisonment who conducted the investigation on my case until inspector Mehdi Mirzayev Baku Military He sent an appeal to the court. In that appeal, he indicated that he was writing this with the voice of his conscience. He states that “I conducted the investigation of Movlam Shikhaliyev for 6 years, in his actions crime due to its lack of composition crime was not held responsible”. My lawyers have sent a copy of that application to Mr. President for special information. A copy is also very respectable Fuad I sent it to Alasgarov. I have applied to the Ombudsman in this regard. Court– I have appealed to the Chairman of the Legal Council and to you personally. During the investigation at the General Prosecutor’s Office, no evidence was obtained. The General Prosecutor’s Office conducted a biased investigation against me. They drew up an indictment with assumptions and assumptions. The prosecuting attorney is sitting in this hall. If he presents only one piece of evidence for one episode, I agree with the accusation,” said Movlam Shikhaliyev.

However, the other three accused colonels, who once worked under him, opposed Movlam Shikhaliyev in this matter. They, on the contrary, judge Ilgar They praised Murguzov and asked him to investigate appeals.

The procedural rule is that if one of the three judges collegially protest if it is given, that judge stays in the courtroom, the other two go to a meeting and make a decision on the objection. In this case, the judges are Hasan Ahmadov and Habil Mammadov general and went to a meeting to make a decision regarding his lawyer’s objection to Ilgar Murguzov. They returned soon after and announced that the protest was not accepted.

From the victims while the judges are in deliberation Hussein Using the break, Safarov addressed the accused MTN members in the glass booth:

“You have committed great crimes. Come out and tell Mr. President that you have betrayed him. Otherwise, you accuse each other here, you throw the crimes you committed against us on each other. To me news you send and tell lies that we will confess. I also go and tell the victims, I turn out to be a liar. Can such a thing happen?! Movlam Shikhaliyev is deceiving me. I have to say it here so that everyone knows where the issue is. I also have audio recordings. They send me to Eldar Mahmudov’s door and tell me to go there, he will pay for the damage. After leaving for the third time, Eldar Mahmudov himself was forced to accept. I will also open this issue in court. These issues do not end like that…”

Victim Hussein Safarov also complained about the confiscation of the property of the general’s family members protest did:

“The wife, daughter and son of Movlam Shikhaliyev crime way directly participated in the legalization of the property acquired with And now without any reason complaint they wrote Where did they get that much money to buy those properties?”

The lawyer of former MTN colonel Yasin Mammadov Ali Adigozelov filed a motion to release his client under house arrest until the final decision of the appeal court is known. His other petition is for appeal court it was about conducting an investigation (examination of witnesses, examination of evidence).

In the court, the lawyer of the general said that the prosecutor’s protest was not given to him or to Movlam Shikhaliyev. To submit the protest to them attorney He asked for the postponement of the trial. This caused the protest of the other accused Yasin Mammadov. Yasin Mammadov loudly accused his former boss and his lawyer of lying.

Movlam Shikhaliyev heard what his former employee said and looked at him with sarcastic looks, but did not say anything.

Lawyer Jeyhun Yusifov insistently repeated that the protest was not presented to him and his client: “There is no document confirming that the protest was presented to us in the case materials either.”

Movlam Shikhaliyev also brought to the judge’s attention that when he receives all the documents, he signs the document as confirmation: “If I have a signature, submit it. If not, submit the protest to us, let’s get acquainted…”

The trial of the former MTN members will continue on December 12.

Movlam Shikhaliyev, one of the mentioned former MTN members, has been in prison since April 2021. On September 21 Baku Military Three other people were also in the courtroom when the verdict was read imprisonment was done. Movlam Shikhaliyev 12 years, Vusal Alakbarov 11 years and 2 months, Yasin Mammadov 10 year and 6 months, and Sahib Alakbarov was sentenced to 8 years.

In the criminal case, we are talking about a total of 14 million 292 thousand manats of bribery and the seizure of 5 million 77 thousand manats of people through threats.

None of the former MNS members accept these accusations and plead not guilty. They say that they could not do these things on their own, in order to start a criminal case against someone, or to release them from prison, the written consent of the prosecutor’s office was required. They are past Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov and his first deputy Rustam They demanded that Usubov be summoned to court and interrogated.