On 18 October, a daily court docket listening to was held within the case of public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, the place paperwork had been investigated.
The defendant himself reiterated that the case was a ‘political order’ and clarified a variety of particulars which are introduced within the case as ‘monetary offences’ and ‘cash laundering’.
The funds, which had been transferred to an account for sending college students overseas, had been held in ‘HSBC’ financial institution. This financial institution in Azerbaijan was later closed down and the Deposit Insurance coverage Company transferred the funds to ‘Worldwide Financial institution’. Since there had been embezzlement on this financial institution and it didn’t benefit from the belief of depositors, Hajiyev transferred all of the funds to ‘Financial institution Respublika’.
Apart from, the investigation blocked Hajiyev’s private funds, which he obtained from the Authorities of Azerbaijan by choice of the European Court docket of Human Rights.
These funds are of authorized origin and there could be no query of cash laundering or embezzlement, Hajiyev mentioned. He requested the court docket to hurry up the method in order that the periods may happen on all working days of the week.
*Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was arrested in December 2022 on fees of hooliganism and contempt of court docket.
On 16 June final yr, the activist was charged with new fees associated to monetary irregularities – misappropriation of grants. He was additionally accused of unlawful entrepreneurship, cash laundering, smuggling and use of cast paperwork.
In November of the identical yr, one other cost was introduced in opposition to him – non-payment of taxes.
Hajiyev himself and his colleagues take into account the trial to be a political order, the explanation for which was Hajiyev’s harsh criticism of the actions of the Azerbaijani Inside Ministry and, specifically, of Minister Vilayat Eyvazov himself.
