Press Review 05/21/15

Official newspapers write about Ilham Aliyev visiting the site of the fire the 16-storey building in the Binagadi district as well as the participation of the head of state at a meeting of the commission inquiring into the fire.

Azadlyg writes that after the arrest of businessmen indebted to the International Bank of Azerbaijan, officials who patronized them will be also arrested.

In connection with the loan scandal, the former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir Hajiyev was taken to the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime at night.

The Ministry of Taxes blacklisted Transgate Company belonging to the Minister of Transport Ziya Mammadov.

In the Mashtaga psychiatric hospital, the actor of the Sumgait Drama Anar Suleymanov was diagnosed "healthy" and released. He had been admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of "crazy" because he opposed the felling of trees in Sumgait.

Express writes about the participation of President Aliyev at a meeting of the state commission, where he criticized the entrepreneurs plundering state property.

The paper also writes that the revetment of building facades will be replaced by stone.

Bizim Yol writes that six of the detained businessmen will be arrested. All of them are arrested for embezzlement of state property.

Yeni Musavat

The newspaper claims that the fire in an apartment building on Azadlig Avenue will put an end to the career of the capital's mayor Hajibala Abutalibov.

The paper suggests that the head of the State Committee for Standardization will be also dismissed for permission to use polyurethane for facing buildings.

The newspaper writes that the company Riad Farm for sale of drugs, which is owned by a cousin of the President Ilgar Aliyev, voluntarily ceased its operations.