Searches at the apartment and cottage of Gubad Ibadoglu

Baku/26.07.23/Turan: By the decision of the investigative body, searches were carried out today in the apartment and at the dacha of the head of the Azerbaijani Democracy and Welfare Party, Gubad Ibadoglu, who is under arrest. The search at the apartment in Baku lasted 1 hour and 5 minutes, at the dacha in Novkhany – 30 minutes, the politician's brother Galib Bayramov said.

According to him, processors of two computers belonging to Ibadoglu's children were seized from Ibadoglu's apartment, as well as the book "The Prophet of Islam" by the American researcher of Islam Mohamed Hamidullah, published by the Caucasus Muslim Board.

At the dacha, law enforcement officers did not find materials and objects significant for the investigation, Bayramov said.

*  GUbad Ibadoglu, the head of the Azerbaijani Democracy and Welfare Party, was detained on July 23 in the afternoon. On Monday , he was charged under  the Article 204 .3.1 (manufacture for marketing purposes, as well as the acquisition or sale of counterfeit money or foreign currency as part of an organized group) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. Under this article, he faces a sentence of imprisonment from 8 to 12 years. On July 24, the court arrested him for the period of investigation for a period of 4 months. Local and human rights organizations condemned the persecution of Ibadoglu and demanded his release.

** Last month, Ibadoglu, together with the head of the National Council, Professor Jamil Hasanli and disgraced diplomat Arif Mammadov, who is in political exile in Europe, announced the creation of the Azerbaijani Youth Education Fund, which was registered in London.

Ibadoglu took the initiative to confiscate the property of Azerbaijani officials abroad and transfer these amounts to the mentioned Fund. ---03B---