Azernews.Az

By Trend

Azerbaijani Prosecutor General’s Office and the country’s Interior Ministry have exposed a $412,000 financial fraud in the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement May 26.

As a result of the measures of detection, it was revealed that Saleh Huseynov, residing in the Russian Federation, in order to conceal the source of receiving "dirty" money, violated the requirements of the law "On Entrepreneurship", the Tax Code and other normative legal acts.

Moreover, with the purpose of carrying out an actual banking operation, he carried out propaganda in the territory of Russia in order to finance the activities of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, said the message.

Saleh Rustamov ensured the transfer of $30,000 through Jeyhun Huseynov, Rauf Isgandarov, Heydar Ahmadov and Tural Mehdikhanov, who were engaged in the illegal transfer of money to Baku for Vidadi Rustamli.

Rustamli received these funds and transferred them to Agil Maharramov, Ruslan Nasirov and Babak Hasanov. Thus, serious suspicions were found regarding financing of the activities of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan in the amount of $412,000, as well as regarding activities to legalize a large amount of money received illegally.

As a result of the investigation the interrogated Babak Hasanov, Ruslan Nasirov, Agil Maharramov confessed to illegal actions and said that the money sent by Saleh Rustamov from Moscow was received from Vidadi Rustamli and was transferred to Ali Karimli and other persons with the purpose of financing the activities of the organization they represent.

At present, the relevant departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office are conducting an objective investigation into this criminal case to determine the number of the perpetrators and bring them to criminal liability.

---

Follow us on Twitter @AzerNewsAz