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Agent of Russian FSB Elshad Abdullayev has been summoned to the General prosecutor’s office of Azerbaijan

Musavat.com reports that the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan sent an appeal to this effect via ITV.

The appeal states that the accused Abdullayev Elshad Islam oglu must appear at the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office on May 5 at 10:00.

It is reported that Abdullayev Elshad Islam oglu is charged under Articles 137.5.1, 137.5.2, 137.5.3, 213.2.2, 308.2, 311.3.1, 311.3.2, 311.3.3 and 29, 312.2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan because he – in advance, in collusion with the head physician of the Medical Institution, which operated under the “Azerbaijan International University”, of which he was the rector, and was convicted for the same act by a legally effective indictment, illegally removed kidneys from donors brought to the Republic of Azerbaijan from Ukraine for the purpose of kidney transplantation and transferred them to foreign citizens in exchange for a total of 104,676 manats, equivalent to 130,000 US dollars. in conducting 13 surgical operations related to the transfer to recipients;

• establishing the higher education institution “Azerbaijan International University” as a means of committing the crime of receiving a large amount of bribe from students, in advance colluding with the persons who worked under his supervision during the years 2002-2010 when he was the rector of that university, and through their mediation and others, receiving a large amount of bribe from individual persons who could not be admitted to higher education institutions after taking exams through the State Commission for Student Admission of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and after receiving education in separate higher education institutions in the territory of foreign countries, despite the fact that they did not receive education, after the official documents containing knowingly false information about their admission as students to the said educational institutions were prepared and their education was formalized, organizing their transfer to the relevant faculties of “Azerbaijan International University” and repeatedly receiving a large amount of money totaling 370,586 manats as bribes from individual students for the above-mentioned illegal actions;
• In order to ensure the continuation of the activities of the “Azerbaijan International University” and the implementation of other illegal acts, he gave bribes in the amount of 1,000,000 US dollars in October-November 2005, 1,000,000 US dollars in August-October 2009, 130,000 US dollars and 500,000 manats in early 2010, 1,500,000 US dollars on December 27, 2003, and 1,000,000 US dollars in April 2010, totaling 5,130,000 US dollars, equivalent to 4,610,153 manats at the official exchange rate for those periods;
• During his tenure as the rector of the “Azerbaijan International University” from 2007 to 2011, there were reasonable suspicions that he evaded paying a large amount of taxes to the state budget in the amount of 1,319,772.3 manat.

In 2013, Abdullayev Elshad Islam oglu was involved as a defendant under Articles 137.3 and 308.2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan and fled from the investigation. Therefore, a search was declared for him by a decision dated that date, and a preventive measure of arrest was selected for him by a decision of the Nasimi District Court of Baku city dated August 20, 2013.

In addition, by a decision dated May 19, 2017, on criminal case No. 162026244, which was investigated by the Main Department for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Azerbaijan, a decision was made to charge Abdullayev Elshad Islam oglu as an accused under Articles 213.2.2, 308.2, 311.3.1, 311.3.2, 311.3.3 and 29, 312.2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, but it was not possible to announce the charges to him due to his absconding from the investigation.

That criminal case was sent to the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office on August 12, 2024 for the continuation of the preliminary investigation and merged with criminal case No. 98765, which was investigated in that department, and the preliminary investigation is being continued in a single proceeding.

Based on the evidence collected in the case, on September 1, 2024, a decision was made to re-indict Abdullayev Elshad Islam oglu under Articles 137.5.1, 137.5.2, 137.5.3, 213.2.2, 308.2, 311.3.1, 311.3.2, 311.3.3 and 29, 312.2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, but since he was outside the borders of the Republic of Azerbaijan, it was not possible to indict him.

The accused Elshad Abdullayev is warned that if he fails to appear at the summons, proceedings may be initiated against him in absentia in accordance with the procedure established by the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which may result in an absentia verdict or other final court decision being issued.