BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 9. Azerbaijan’s State
Security Service has detained an individual suspected of committing
treason and carrying out assignments on behalf of a foreign
intelligence agency, Trend reports via the service.
During the operational-investigative measures continued by the
State Security Service to detect and prevent the
intelligence-subversive activities of foreign special service
agencies aimed at the national security of the Republic of
Azerbaijan, reasonable suspicions arose that Siyafat Farzaliyev, a
citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan, born in 1969, committed
treason.
The investigations revealed that while visiting a foreign
country, a resident of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Siyafat
Farzaliyev, was involved in secret cooperation in exchange for a
material gain by representatives of the special service agencies of
that state, and after returning to the country, on their
instructions, he complied with their directives by filming videos
of military and other strategically significant installations
situated in Nakhchivan city and Shahbuz district, thereafter
transmitting them to representatives of foreign intelligence
services.
Furthermore, during a search of the apartment where the
mentioned person lived, separate parts of a “Kalashnikov”-type
automatic weapon were discovered and seized from there.
Siyafat Farzaliyev was charged under Articles 228.1 (illegal
acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation, or carrying
of firearms, their components, ammunition, explosives, and devices)
and 274 (treason) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of
Azerbaijan and was remanded in custody by a court decision.
Investigative-operational measures on the criminal case are
currently ongoing.
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