BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 12. A preventive
measure of arrest in absentia has been chosen against Abbas
Abbasov, Fuad Gahramanli, and Ganimat Zahidov, Trend reports.


Investigative measures have been carried out by
the Azerbaijani State Security Service in connection with criminal
acts directed against state power.


As a result of the comprehensive measures taken by the nation's
State Security Service to prevent the provocative-disruptive
activities of foreign special service agencies against the
security, national interests, and benefits of Azerbaijan, concerns
have emerged regarding the actions of certain individuals from
Azerbaijan, including Ramiz Mehdiyev, Abbas Abbasov, and Ali
Karimli, who are suspected of engaging in activities intended to
unlawfully seize state power and alter the constitutional framework
by force.


According to the indictment filed against the accused in the
criminal case, as the co-founders and leaders of the organization,
which was created by special service agencies of the foreign
country to interfere with political processes in Azerbaijan and
registered in a foreign country on July 4, 2012, under the name
“Union of Russian Azerbaijani Organizations” and called “Union of
Billionaires,” Abbasov and Rustam Ibrahimbeyov, as well as
Mehdiyev, Karimli, and party members Gahramanli, Zahidov, and
others, conspired to forcibly seize state power and forcibly change
the current constitutional state structure.


Thus, after they creation of an organization called the
“National Council of Democratic Forces” (National Council), which
nominated Ibrahimbeyov, a foreign national, as a candidate for the
Presidential elections of Azerbaijan in 2013, they acted with the
financial assistance and other forms of organizational support of
foreign special service agencies to commit mass riots, disobey
lawful demands of government representatives, disrupt public order,
transport, enterprises, departments and organizations in order to
forcibly seize state power, and also directed the funds in the
amount of 933,828 manat ($549,310) they received through APFP
member Ibrahim Mammad and others, as well as directed funds
received from Ramiz Mehdiyev and Abbas Abbasov to attract people
from various regions of the country to commit the aforementioned
acts.


For their participation in the listed criminal acts, Abbasov,
Karimli, Gahramanli, Mammad and Zahidov have been held responsible
as accused persons under Articles 278.1 (actions aimed at the
forcible seizure or forcible retention of power, as well as
forcible change of the constitutional structure of the state),
Eldar Amirov under 32.5 and 278.1 (assistance to actions aimed at
the forcible seizure or forcible retention of power, as well as
forcible change of the constitutional structure of the state), and
Mehdiyev 193-1.3.2 (legalization of a large amount of property
obtained through crime), 274 (treason), and 278.1 of the Criminal
Code of Azerbaijan.


Abbasov, Gahramanli, and Zahidov were declared wanted, and the
court chose a preventive measure of arrest in absentia because they
are currently outside of the territory of Azerbaijan, hiding from
the investigation.


Investigations into the criminal case are continuing.


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