Customs generals jail sentence extended

The prison sentences of Major General Ehtiram Khalilov, who served as directors of the "Azerterminalcomplex" association affiliated to the State Customs Committee, and Masum Rasulov, Head of the Committee's Operations and Investigation Department, were extended, Qazet.az reports according to the decision in the Sabail District Court.

According to the decision, E. Khalilov's prison sentence was extended by 3 months and M. Rasulov's sentence was extended by another 4 months.

It should be noted that both persons were detained during the complex operational-investigation measures of the criminal case, which was launched by the State Security Service on June 10 this year.

Khalilov Ehtiram Seyyafoğlu, who serves as the director of the "Azerterminalcomplex" association affiliated to the State Customs Commission, has deliberately used his service powers to gain an unlawful advantage in the performance of the service, contrary to the interests of the service, as a result of the investigations. official duties, in violation of the rules for the regulation and implementation of customs tenders determined by legislation, S.A. Gulamov, R.Ch. Evaluation and sale of property and vehicles transferred to the government at their fair value based on prior agreement with separate persons. There was reasonable suspicion that he had repeatedly received large bribes from E.V.Ibrahimov, T.D.Panahov, S.H.Abdullayev, I.M.Musayev, E.Y.Humbatov, A.S.Aliyev and others.

In the criminal case, Ehtiram Khalilov was brought to criminal liability under articles 308.1 (abuse of official power), 311.3.2 and 311.3.3 (repeated acceptance of large bribes) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The court took a detention order on June 22, 2022.

Also, according to the investigation, there are Babayev Rashad Tofig, Deputy Head of the General Customs Department of Energy Resources and Maritime Transport of the State Customs Committee, and Safarov Şükür Isbandiyar, who serves as the Head of the Road Taxes and Permit Forms Control Department. It was determined that the General Directorate of Customs Tariffs Regulation and Payments was a group of people who had made a secret agreement before. The information that large and heavy foreign trucks that require special permission due to their duties have entered the country's territory, official taxes have been removed from the customs checkpoints at the border crossing points and do not hinder this. In return, large amounts of bribes were made to the owners of these trucks by using intermediaries.

Rashad Babayev and Shukur Safarov were charged with criminal liability under Articles 311.3.1, 311.3.2 and 311.3.3 of the Criminal Code (repeatedly taking large sums of bribes by a group of people who had previously colluded), the Court granted injunctive relief on July 1, 2022. took a precautionary measure.

Rasulov Masum Eynalıoğlu, who also served as the Head of the Operations and Investigation Department of the State Customs Commission for the ongoing criminal case, deliberately used his powers against the interests of the service, and as per the agreement reached before, through other officials of the State Customs Committee, the "Azerterminal complex" "Azerbaijan Legal Consulting International" Services" LLC, "Nanoc" LLC, "Vega-Servis" LLC, "Megan Group" LLC, the provision of legal services, advertising work, training and technical services by the Association under the name "Omega Servis IKO" LLC, "Delta Servis IKO" Reasonable suspicions of embezzlement of particularly large amounts of government budget funds transferred to the accounts of LLCs and other companies have been identified. are returned in cash without performing the relevant work and services.