Press Review 05/26/15

Official newspapers write about Ilham Aliyev's participation in the opening of the Olympic Village for the athletes and media representatives.

Azadlyg writes that the arrested entrepreneur Nizami Piriyev is tortured at the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime.

The Executive Power of Baku is manipulating the date of the National Council rally again. The rally scheduled for May 30 has been authorized for May 31.

The PFPA activist Elvin Abdullayev can get 7 years in prison for political statements in social networks.

The mother of the soldier Tapdig Babashov claims that her son was beaten to death and did not fall from a height, as she was told. The soldier served at a military unit in the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Bilajari.

The New York Times published an article that the US Congress members, who participated in a SOCAR event in Baku, returned home with rich gifts.

Express writes that the Oil Fund is trying to buy property in Japan. Experts also believe that the purchase of property in this country is not profitable.

The newspaper writes that the athlete Isa Azizov, whose father and uncle are officials, has beaten two girls in a night bar.

Echo writes that in the state budget for 2016 Azerbaijan can only reduce investment costs.

In Azerbaijan, there are 329 licensed hotels.

Bizim Yol reports the closure of Avesta Company owned by the businessman Ibrahim Nehramli.

The newspaper writes that banks artificially inflate the number of problem loans to evade taxes.

Yeni Musavat writes that the arrests in connection with the loans of the International Bank of Azerbaijan have come to Bank Technique.

The newspaper writes about the scandal between the owners of transport routes to displace each other. The owner of one of the routes left Azerbaijan in protest and went to Georgia and began a hunger strike there. -0--