Baku / 20.09.17 / Turan: Baku's executive power responded positivelyto notification of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of its intentionto hold a rally on September 23 at the stadium "Mahsul".The action is scheduled for September 23 from 15.00 to 17.00 at the stadium "Mahsul". The leader of the Popular Front party Ali Kerimli stated earlier, that the actionis held in connection with the scandal "Landromat", about identifyinginternational investigative journalism network OCCRP withdrawal from Azerbaijan in 2012-2014 for the purpose of money laundering and paymentlobbying activities of 2.9 billion dollars.The NCDF requires the Prosecutor General's Office to start a criminal case in connectionwith funds withdrawn from the country, obtained through corruption.At the rally the NCDF will put forward demands for the return of those money illegally withdrawn from thecountry, and punishing those responsible. It should be noted that representatives of official Baku rejected statements, put forward in the OCCRP investigation and called it another provocation of forces hostile to Azerbaijan.-03D06--
Politics
-
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
-
Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
-
Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
-
On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
Leave a review