Rovshan Akperov accused of crime whole Azerbaijan knew about for 20 years

Baku/17.03.21/Turan: The Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan announced on March 17 the reason for the arrest of the former commander of the Baku Army Corps, Lieutenant General Rovshan Akperov.

On March 15, 2021, Rovshan Akperov was charged under Articles 12.1, 120.2.2 (premeditated murder) and 12.1, 221.3 (Hooliganism) of the Criminal Code.

He was charged under these articles, and on the submission of the Prosecutor General's Office the Baku military court arrested him for 4 months for the period of the investigation.

Let us remind that we are talking about the murder on June 1, 2001, when Rovshan Akperov, after a feast in the Kiev cafe Sikora, on the basis of a conflict, killed citizen Elchin Aliyev with a knife into the heart.

The prosecutor's office of Ukraine opened a criminal case under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code and in 2003 sent it to Azerbaijan.

The investigation in Baku was conducted by the Military Prosecutor's Office and the Investigation Department for Serious Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office of the country, but the case was closed due to the fact that "the person who committed the crime was not identified."

After re-examining this criminal case in the General Prosecutor's Office in 2020, its proceedings were resumed. The Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, having carried out numerous investigative actions and collecting sufficient evidence, revealed a reasonable suspicion of the commission of this criminal act by Rovshan Akperov, the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.

It took the prosecutor's office 19 years to do this. Note that for many years the media wrote about this murder, and the parents of the victim held press conferences. However, the prosecutor's office ignored them. — 0—