The Baku Court of Grave Crimes on Wednesday continued the trial in the criminal case involving Vidadi Zeynalov, former head of the Office of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Communications and High Technologies, and other people arrested alongside him.
During the trial, witnesses gave testimony.
Witness Adil Gasimov said he has been the director of “Yeni HÉ™yat” LLC, noting that part of the amount allocated after the win in the tender went to Aztelekom LLC.
“We would construct telephone exchange buildings, do other tasks, and take part in tenders. Various amounts would be allocated for construction. We would return to Aztelekom LLC 40 percent of amounts allocated for tenders. I heard those funds would reach Ogtay Rustamov,” he added.
Defendant Ogtay Rustamov, chief accountant of Aztelekom LLC, said he is not acquainted with the witness in any way, noting that these affairs would be settled with Vidadi Zeynalov.
Fikrat Valiyev, chief of a post delivery center, said he had only business relations with the defendants.
Ahmad Mehdiyev, former deputy director general of Baku Telephone Network Production Association, said that he controlled cabling process. “Five million manats had been allocated in this regard,” he said.
In his testimony during the preliminary investigation, Mehdiyev said he was receiving extra 10,000 manats per month, however, he refused his testimony during the trial.
Gorkhmaz Haziyev, head of Qafqaz S construction company, said he was only involved in construction and repair work.
“We were working on the basis of tenders. The work done by the company was estimated at 22 million manats. We knew Ali Abbasov’s brother-in-law Elchin Ibrahimov. But, Ibrahimov had nothing to do with the company’s victory in tenders,” he added.
Defendant Vida Zeynalov said funds were allocated to the construction company under the instructions of minister Ali Abbasov.
“Department heads and I were controlling proper distribution of funds. We were not responsible for the completion of construction work,” he added.
The trial will continue in the afternoon.
A series of investigative operations had discovered that in 2009-2015, the director general of Baku Telephone Network Production Association Beytulla Huseynov, entered into a criminal conspiracy with the director of “Bakı Rabite Temir Tikinti” and “Temir Techizat Servis” companies Bayram Valiyev, the director of "3 nomreli Rabite Temir Tikinti” and “Rabite Mulki Tikinti” companies Emin Mammadov and the chief accountant of the Baku Telephone Network Production Association Anar Mustafayev, gave them a project for the implementation of works on the new telephone lines and installation of new equipment. According to the agreement concluded between them, 35-45% are listed on the accounts of these companies means then had to be returned in cash to Beytullah Huseynov. After that Beytullah Huseynov, abusing official powers and organizing sham tenders issued forged documents, which indicated that the work for the fiber-optic lines for the Internet were carried out by companies controlled by him, though in reality, these works were carried out by local telephone networks. Because of these machinations Beytulla Huseynov misappropriated 21,379,000 of 71,263 million manats, transfers to accounts controlled by him LLC. However, investigators have reason to suspect that the Chief of Staff of the Ministry Vidadi Zeynalov, processing government orders to close the company itself and increasing their value by 4-5 times, misappropriated 73.59 million manats.
The investigation revealed cases of appropriation of budgetary funds and forgery in “Aztelekom” LLC, “AzÄ°nTelekom” LLC, Center for information and calculations, “Optik Rabite Tikinti ve Qurashdırma”.
The director general of Baku Telephone Network Production Association Beytulla Huseynov, the director of “Bakı Rabite Temir Tikinti” and “Temir Techizat Servis” companies Bayram Valiyev, the director of "3 nomreli Rabite Temir Tikinti” and “Rabite Mulki Tikinti” companies Emin Mammadov and the chief accountant of the Baku Telephone Network Production Association Anar Mustafayev are charged under articles 179.3.2 (embezzlement on a large scale), 308.2 (abuse of power) and 313 (forgery) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.
The head of the ministry’s Office Vidadi Zeynalov, the director general of AzInTelekom LLC Jalil Jafarov, the director general of Azerpocht LLC Gambar Beybalayev face charges under articles 179.3.2 and 308.2. A preventive measure in the form of arrest has been chosen against all of those persons.
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