Azerbaijan jails 11 police for life
Jan 19th 2007, 10:39 am
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Azerbaijan jails 11 police for life
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Azerbaijan jails 11 police for life
The police officers made millions of euros out
of ransom payments [File: GALLO/GETTY]
Eleven senior police officers in Azerbaijan have been jailed for life
on Friday for carrying out a series of murders and kidnappings.
The former head of the country's criminal investigations department
received jail terms totalling 297 years for leading the 26-member
criminal gang for 10 years.
The other members were given sentences of two to 15 years.
The Court for Especially Serious Crimes concluded that the defendants
had killed 11 people, including a counter-narcotics officer, a
prosecutor and the vice-president of the Association of Football
Federations of Azerbaijan.
The gang carried out 30 kidnappings, making millions of euros in ransom
payments, the court heard.
In March 2005, the gang was destroyed when forces from the national
security ministry freed the kidnapped wife of the country's largest
bank, the International Bank of Azerbaijan, and arrested about 20
people. The captors had demanded a six million euro ransom.
Last year, while in prison waiting for the trial to begin, Haci
Mammadov, the former criminal investigations chief, also confessed to
the killing of Elmar Huseynov, a newspaper editor and prominent critic
of the government.
He said that Farhad Aliyev, a former economic development minister, had
ordered the murder.
Aliyev was sacked and arrested last year on charges of embezzlement and
plotting a coup. He denies all the allegations.
Last year Azerbaijan was rated joint 130th in an index published by
corruption watchdog Transparency International that ranked countries
according to how corrupt they were perceived to be.
Azerbaijan jails 11 police for life
The police officers made millions of euros out
of ransom payments [File: GALLO/GETTY]
Eleven senior police officers in Azerbaijan have been jailed for life
on Friday for carrying out a series of murders and kidnappings.
The former head of the country's criminal investigations department
received jail terms totalling 297 years for leading the 26-member
criminal gang for 10 years.
The other members were given sentences of two to 15 years.
The Court for Especially Serious Crimes concluded that the defendants
had killed 11 people, including a counter-narcotics officer, a
prosecutor and the vice-president of the Association of Football
Federations of Azerbaijan.
The gang carried out 30 kidnappings, making millions of euros in ransom
payments, the court heard.
In March 2005, the gang was destroyed when forces from the national
security ministry freed the kidnapped wife of the country's largest
bank, the International Bank of Azerbaijan, and arrested about 20
people. The captors had demanded a six million euro ransom.
Last year, while in prison waiting for the trial to begin, Haci
Mammadov, the former criminal investigations chief, also confessed to
the killing of Elmar Huseynov, a newspaper editor and prominent critic
of the government.
He said that Farhad Aliyev, a former economic development minister, had
ordered the murder.
Aliyev was sacked and arrested last year on charges of embezzlement and
plotting a coup. He denies all the allegations.
Last year Azerbaijan was rated joint 130th in an index published by
corruption watchdog Transparency International that ranked countries
according to how corrupt they were perceived to be.
Jan 20th 2007, 1:46 am
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> http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6A60FFA7-E13E-4393-94C6-ECD10A323003.htm
>
> Azerbaijan jails 11 police for life
>
> The police officers made millions of euros out
> of ransom payments [File: GALLO/GETTY]
> Eleven senior police officers in Azerbaijan have been jailed for life
> on Friday for carrying out a series of murders and kidnappings.
>
> The former head of the country's criminal investigations department
> received jail terms totalling 297 years for leading the 26-member
> criminal gang for 10 years.
>
> The other members were given sentences of two to 15 years.
>
> The Court for Especially Serious Crimes concluded that the defendants
> had killed 11 people, including a counter-narcotics officer, a
> prosecutor and the vice-president of the Association of Football
> Federations of Azerbaijan.
>
> The gang carried out 30 kidnappings, making millions of euros in ransom
> payments, the court heard.
>
> In March 2005, the gang was destroyed when forces from the national
> security ministry freed the kidnapped wife of the country's largest
> bank, the International Bank of Azerbaijan, and arrested about 20
> people. The captors had demanded a six million euro ransom.
>
> Last year, while in prison waiting for the trial to begin, Haci
> Mammadov, the former criminal investigations chief, also confessed to
> the killing of Elmar Huseynov, a newspaper editor and prominent critic
> of the government.
>
> He said that Farhad Aliyev, a former economic development minister, had
> ordered the murder.
>
> Aliyev was sacked and arrested last year on charges of embezzlement and
> plotting a coup. He denies all the allegations.
>
> Last year Azerbaijan was rated joint 130th in an index published by
> corruption watchdog Transparency International that ranked countries
> according to how corrupt they were perceived to be.
>
[email protected] om...
> http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6A60FFA7-E13E-4393-94C6-ECD10A323003.htm
>
> Azerbaijan jails 11 police for life
>
> The police officers made millions of euros out
> of ransom payments [File: GALLO/GETTY]
> Eleven senior police officers in Azerbaijan have been jailed for life
> on Friday for carrying out a series of murders and kidnappings.
>
> The former head of the country's criminal investigations department
> received jail terms totalling 297 years for leading the 26-member
> criminal gang for 10 years.
>
> The other members were given sentences of two to 15 years.
>
> The Court for Especially Serious Crimes concluded that the defendants
> had killed 11 people, including a counter-narcotics officer, a
> prosecutor and the vice-president of the Association of Football
> Federations of Azerbaijan.
>
> The gang carried out 30 kidnappings, making millions of euros in ransom
> payments, the court heard.
>
> In March 2005, the gang was destroyed when forces from the national
> security ministry freed the kidnapped wife of the country's largest
> bank, the International Bank of Azerbaijan, and arrested about 20
> people. The captors had demanded a six million euro ransom.
>
> Last year, while in prison waiting for the trial to begin, Haci
> Mammadov, the former criminal investigations chief, also confessed to
> the killing of Elmar Huseynov, a newspaper editor and prominent critic
> of the government.
>
> He said that Farhad Aliyev, a former economic development minister, had
> ordered the murder.
>
> Aliyev was sacked and arrested last year on charges of embezzlement and
> plotting a coup. He denies all the allegations.
>
> Last year Azerbaijan was rated joint 130th in an index published by
> corruption watchdog Transparency International that ranked countries
> according to how corrupt they were perceived to be.
>
