The National Council of Democratic Forces appealed to the Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov calling on Azerbaijan to investigate the materials of the so-called "Panama documents."
"The National Council demands that the public prosecutor conduct an investigation, and then inform the public about the progress and results of the investigation," the head of the National Council Jamil Hasanli said.
The appeal also states that neither Ilham Aliyev nor Mehriban Aliyeva in their declarations at the time of the presidential elections (2008 and 2013) and parliamentary elections (2005, 2010, 2015) specified the income from offshore companies and assets registered in Panama and in the Virgin Islands. According to the electoral law of Azerbaijan, it is a serious legal basis for cancellation of the results of presidential and parliamentary elections.
If the property and income had been declared in the declarations, the fact that they are being hidden from the society poses a serious legal and political responsibility for the Central Election Commission, the statement said.
In his address he reminded that on April 5, 2016 the authoritative British newspaper The Guardian published an article titled London Law Firm Helped Azerbaijan's First Family Set up Secret Offshore Firm. It is said the Aliyev family through secret offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands bought property for millions of GBP.
In particular, it is reported about the acquisition of villas for 17 million GBP in the names of Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva in London. Illegal transactions and transfers of funds were carried out by means of Ata Holding, owned by the Minister of Taxes of Azerbaijan Fazil Mammadov.
According to the British newspaper, Mammadov controls funds of up to $ 600 million. He is a banker of the Aliyev family. This became known after the leak to the press of the documents of the Panamanian company Mossack Fonseca.
According to these documents, several companies belonging to Ilham Aliyev’s children are registered in Panama. These companies acquired expensive real estate at different times and invested heavily in various companies in the West.
Such business activities of the President, his wife and children are contrary to the laws of Azerbaijan, are tax evasion and should be given a legal assessment.
Participation in such operations of members of the ruling family and the Minister of Taxes of Azerbaijan is an unprecedented phenomenon. This fact of corruption requires a serious assessment and the public of Azerbaijan is to get clear answers on the revealed facts, the statement says. -03D-
Want to say
-
In Ukraine, a brutal, bloody war caused by Russian aggression continues, claiming lives, destroying homes, demolishing infrastructure, and inflicting incalculable harm on the environment and surrounding natural ecosystems. Ukraine, more than anyone else in this world, strives for peace, as we bear the daily brutality of this Russian-Ukrainian war. We are at the forefront of the struggle for the right to life, freedom, and justice. Ukraine seeks a just peace that will lay a solid foundation for a stable future for Europe and the World, and the only way of achieving this is to implement President Volodymyr Zelensky's Peace Formula (the Ukrainian Peace Formula).
-
On the eve of a large-scale flood approaching Baku, a disturbing incident occurred in the village of Buzovna, where a Lada Priora car fell into the ground, literally collapsing the road beneath it. The driver miraculously remained unharmed but vowed to seek justice, promising to file an official complaint with the prosecutor’s office against Azersu OJSC, the state-owned water supply and sewerage company, often associated with deeply rooted corruption.
-
In a bit of historic irony, powerful oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili has managed to inspire rare unity across Georgia’s cacophonous political scene twice in his life. His money and influence forged the broad-based consolidation of opposition forces that brought him to power in 2012, and now, 12 years and three electoral cycles later, a similar pattern of opposition convergence could send him packing.
-
Russian authorities and pro-Kremlin influencers have been spreading false information about alleged Reporters Without Borders (RSF) research into Nazi tendencies within the Ukrainian military, which was featured in a viral video falsely attributed to the BBC. RSF exposes the inner workings of a disinformation campaign designed to justify President Vladimir Putin's war narrative.
Leave a review