Officer, who criticized the rules in the presidential guard service, is arrested

A former officer of the Special State Guard Service (SSGS), Asif Latifov, exposing in the press corruption in this organization,  was arrested in accordance with the decision of the Baku Military Court.

Senior Lieutenant, Latifov, was  charged under  Articles of the Criminal Code: 228.1 (illegal storage, carrying and transportation of firearms and ammunition) and 232.2.3 (extortion of weapons and ammunition through threats, and the use of official position),  Turan was told by  Gulnaz Lyatifova, mother  of the arrested. She believes that the charges  are spurious.

According to her, the blame  of  Asif is  that  on  March 5, 2011  he found at the airport a cartridge to the machine "AK-762" , and did not give it to his boss, the commander of the detachment "Betta" ,colonel Fikret Rzayev;  but next day  he  handed it over to the  Department of Internal Investigations of the SSGS.

Lyatifova believes that, rather  instead of judging the commander for the loss of the cartridge,  they arrested her son. She also pointed out that Rzayev was not brought to justice because he is a close relative of the security chief of President, Beylar Eyubov.

Earlier,  in the press Latifov  condemned Rzayev  of  bribes extortion from the salary of the officers, and  of  incompetence. He also spoke about nepotism and non-professionalism prospering in the SSGS.—06B—