Lawyer Gurban Mammadov is sentenced to three years of imprisonment

 Today the Nasimi District Court of Baku sentenced Gurban Mammadov, a famous lawyer and a member of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) to three years of imprisonment.

He was convicted under the following Articles of the Criminal Code: 263.1 (violation of traffic rules causing damage to health) and 299.1 (bribery victim.) The lawyer Anar Gasymly told Turan that the verdict is unfounded and about political motives of the prosecution of Mammadov.

According to him, Mammadov’s guilt in committing the accident has not been proven.

In the road accident was involved another car and the victim, a man working in the car park fell between two cars.

The court has not requested video from surveillance cameras at the accident scene. Testimony of prosecution witnesses contradicted each other.

According to the lawyer, the victim Mammadov assisted the victim, without waiting for the investigation and identifies the culprits. This can not be qualified as a bribe the victim. The lawyer believes the case is politically motivated. Evidence of this is pre-trial arrest Mammadov, the imposition of the maximum penalty. The verdict will be appealed to the Court of Appeal.

Mammadov was arrested in early June this year in connection with an accident in September 2012.

The victim had no complaints to Mammadov, but after the lawyer participated in the creation of NCDF, the police arrested him. -06C-