Press Review 05/23/14

Official newspapers write about the meetings of President Ilham Aliyev, and on his familiarizing with the exhibition of food industry and agriculture.

Azadlig writes that criticism of U.S. Ambassador Richard Morningstar has been joined by the head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev.

The Metro heads gave a week’s time to leave the Metro -owned buildings, including the pro-government NGO Forum.

The Prosecutor's Office seized the bank account of the journalist Aynur Imranova, accusing her of official forgery and use of official authority.

The entrepreneur Hafiz Mammadov is being seized the Bank of Azerbaijan belonging to him, and brought down as chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Ex-minister Ali Insanov said he would not write a petition for clemency. Earlier, authorities asked him to do it in exchange for leaving Azerbaijan.

Telman Aliyev, Executive Director of Caspian European Club, which is chaired by Ilham Aliyev, said that a number of ministers will be sacked.

Express

Human rights activist Novella Jafaroglu said that the clemency petition of ex-minister Ali Insanov was written by human rights defenders.

Echo

Between the U.S. and Azerbaijan an agreement has been reached on the mutual exchange of information on the financial accounts of taxpayers.

Yeni Musavat writes that the parliamentarian Ceyhun Osmanli in the name of his salvation handed the investigation materials about the Nur movement in Azerbaijan and Turkey

National Radio and Television Council refused to allocate the TV channel ANS finance for shooting television series, as the funds are spent for other purposes. -0 –