Rufat Safarov was transferred to jail N9

On 6 January Rufat Safarov, former investigator of  Zardab regional prosecutor's office was transferred from prison to the jail N9, where are kept the former employees of law enforcement bodies, told the lawyer Behruz Bayramov. According to him, a  man who repeatedly served 25 years in jail, was placed to the ward  where Rufat is kept;  and this man is trying to  make a conflict  with Rufat.   The lawyer said that after referring to the management of the Prison Service and the extensive coverage of this issue in the media, Safarov was finally transferred to jail.

* Rufat Safarov was sentenced in September 2016 to nine years in prison on charges of taking bribes, and before that he was fired from the prosecutor's office for "misconduct."  On 22 December the Court of Appeal upheld the verdict against Safarov. His father  is  a former activist of the ruling party, Eldar Sabiroglu, which has long been a member of parliament, and then the press secretary of the Ministry of Defense, after the dismissal began to criticize the head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev for mediocrity, and then began attacks on Rufat Safarov. -06B-