Trial in the case of former Minister of Economic Relations Nijat Guliyev, accused of illegal possession of weapons, is coming to end in the Absheron district court. On March 11 the prosecutor to imprison Guliyev to three years. Sentencing is postponed indefinitely.
Guliyev rejected the accusation. Guliyev was arrested on August 8 in the village of Novkhani. According to investigators, guns and hand grenades were found in Guliyev’s villa, and a a gun was found in his private car.
the country Guliyev were found guns and hand grenades , and in a private car - a gun.
Nijat Guliyev was the Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Azerbaijan in 1993-95. Since the late 1990s until the mid -2000s he worked as an advisor at the former president of Adjaria, Aslan Abashidze. When Abashidze resigned, Guliyev was doing business in Azerbaijan and Turkey.
In October 2005, Nijat Guliyev and other senior officials were arrested on charges of plotting a coup, but two weeks later he was released. -16D-
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