AZERI OFFICERS GO TO JAIL FOR BRIBERY, COVERING UP CRIME

Trend news agency
6 Feb 06

Baku, 6 February, Trend correspondent E. Cavadov: The trial of the commander of a military unit in Tovuz District [western Azerbaijan], Rahim Mammadsarifov, and a division commander in the same unit, Rufat Badirxanov, ended at the Court for Serious Crimes on 6 February. The trial was presided over by judge Mehdi Asadov.

It was found out that that soldier from the same unit Zaur Veyisov [who was arrested in June 2005] had been recruited by the Armenian special services. He shared 1,000 dollars, which he had been paid, with the aforementioned officers in the unit and leaked information on the number of the personnel and weapons to the enemy.

After receiving the money, the commanders transferred Veyisov to another unit in order to cover up the crime. However, the special services detected the crime in April 2005.

The guilt of the officers' was proved. Badirxanov was sentenced to six and Mammadsarifov to five years in prison.