Outrage continues in Nakhchivan

Two entrepreneurs Mahammad Gurbanov and Nadir Mammadov were beaten and then arrested  in the Sadarak Customs Office on December  8. Their families are concerned, because  there is not any information about them  and their whereabouts for four days.

According to relatives, after beating Nadir Mammadov went home, but later the police came to  his house, and forcibly took him away. His wife, Farida Mammadova  was told that her husband and the second businessman  were not in  the police office. However,  their  cars were in the yard of the police office.

Farida Mammadova believes that both  entrepreneurs had been tortured, and therefore, they are not shown to the families. Despite an appeal to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Nakhchivan, there was no answer.

Prevously the  businessman Mahammad Gurbanov told reporters that the customs officers  took away his goods imported form Turkey, and  demanded a bribe. On December 8 journalists together with the entrepreneur came to  the Customs Office, but  were attacked by forty persons in civilian clothes.

At the same time,  the entrepreneur Nadir Mammadov and his employee Togrul Abbasov were severely beaten, as well as journalists, who  were pulled out of the car, and their camera and mobile phones were taken away.

In connection with this fact,  the Nakhchivan Customs Office  issued a statement,  and called the information of  entrepreneurs false and unfounded. Customs claims that the detainee Mahammad Gurbanov repeatedly violated customs regulations, and on  December 8, more than three tons of food imported by him was arrested because he did not have proper documentation.

In addition, the entrepreneur Nadir Mammadov is  accused of stabbing that customs employee , and a lawsuit was filed against him. -5D04-