The Baku Appeal Court today completed consideration of the appeal of Abdulla Abdullayev, the head of the largest shopping center of Baku «AMAY.» The Court dismissed the appeal, and upheld the verdict of the trial court. Protection intends to appeal the verdict in the Supreme Court.
On September 7 the Baku Court of Serious Crimes sentenced Abdullayev to 13 years in prison, and found him guilty under Articles 179.3.2 (embezzlement) and Article 308.2 (abuse of power) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.
The rest of the defendants in the case were sentenced to three years in prison on probation. Abdullayev denied the charges and called the actions of the investigation biased.-06D-
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Georgian law enforcement has detained an ethnic Azerbaijani in Marneuli who gained international attention through a viral video showing him stuffing a stack of ballots into a voting box, according to Shalva Papuashvili, a member of the political council of the "Georgian Dream" party and the parliament chair.
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On October 28, Baku experienced rain once again. As with five days earlier, streets and homes in the capital flooded. Fortunately, unlike the previous incident, no fatalities occurred this time in waterlogged tunnels. (On October 22, two people drowned in a tunnel flooded with rainwater in Sabunchu district.)
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Two women have died from mushroom poisoning in the Khachmaz region, located 200 km north of Baku. According to Azar Magsudov, the head of the toxicology department at the Clinical Medical Center (CMC), the victims were 46 and 41 years old.
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Changeable weather is expected in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula; rain is possible in some areas in the evening and fog in the morning and evening. Northwest wind will change to the southeast.
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