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Baku / 09.05.20 / Turan: Unofficial sources inform about the arrest of four senior officials of the Ministry of Culture during the operation yesterday.
These are Deputy Minister Rafik Bayramov, Head of the Department of Culture Jalil Melikov, Head of the Department for the Protection of Historic Heritage Sites Zakir Sultanov and Press Secretary of the Department Intigam Humbatov.
The same sources claim that searches were carried out in the apartments of those arrested.
The detentions were preceded by a five-hour interrogation of Minister Abulfaz Garayev himself at the State Security Service (SSS).
However, official sources do not report anything new, except for morning information about the SSS operation in connection with the theft, misappropriation and abuse of authority.
At the same time, the SSS does not refute the above messages published in a number of pro-government media. -03B-
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