Minval.az: No one can smuggle from Azerbaijan to Georgia drugs for 170 million dollars, having no patron with contacts in power

July 21, 2014 By administrator

The world media has bypassed the news that Georgian Interior Ministry has detained two thousand 790 kilograms of “liquid heroin” during a search of a truck on the route from Azerbaijan to Turkey via Georgia.

It is unlikely that someone could smuggle drugs that cost about $ 170 million throughout the transit chain not having very high patron from national government, reads Azerbaijani news portal “Minval.az.”

“Catching the trail of international drug trafficking, our customs could act differently – the president would give them a medal, the president could have appointed them on positions but now it appears they have missed the celebration of their lives. They let down also the head of the state, who could somewhere in Kabul or in Palermo boast that his special services have conducted an operation, which has no analogues in the world,” the author writes.

It is noted that none of the press services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of National Security, Border Guard and the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan gave essential answers to the questions of the journalists. Representative of the border control service E. Nagiyev told the “Yeni Musavat” newspaper that this product either has never crossed the state border, or has been declared as a transit cargo crossing the border under interstate agreements. In other words this means putting the responsibility on the shoulders of the customs.

“Afghan drug trafficking is the most popular one in the world. Azerbaijan is one of its major transit points, and the abovementioned operation is no exception to the rule. According to international experts, among the transit routes there are Iran – Azerbaijan – Georgia – Black Sea with delivery to Europe, Iran – Azerbaijan – Russia – Baltic States with delivery to Europe, as well as Iran – Azerbaijan with delivery to Russia,”, reads the article.

The author notes that there is another, less known route from Afghanistan, according to the scheme of Iran – Azerbaijan – Russia – Ukraine – Europe; Iran – Azerbaijan – Turkey – Ukraine – Europe. Azerbaijani border guards, police and customs officers several times in a year take trail of second-rate drug traffickers and seize half-ton of the maximum substances; most of it is marijuana bushes. They have no great achievements yet.

“Maybe when the country’s leadership will sign Association Agreement with the EU, it will get the approval of seizing and returning the turnover of large quantities of heroin. I cannot believe that someone could smuggle drugs in such volume (wholesale price is about U.S. $ 170 million), not having a high enough patron with ties in national government throughout the whole transit chain,” the author stresses.

According to WikiLeaks data of 2010, one of the reasons for the growth of the rate of drug trafficking is that the more than the half of the Russian market is controlled by the natives of Azerbaijan.

It is also noted that the fight against drug trafficking in Azerbaijan is very weak, there is no clear system of medical training, the doctor-narcologists are prepared for the Psychiatry Departments, moreover there are no such lessons as problems to reduce harm from drugs and drug addiction.

Source: Panorama.am

AZEBAÏDJAN The fortunes of Leyla and Arzu Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan girls

July 19, 2014 By administrator

The presidential family Aliev reigns supreme over the great country of Black Gold, Azerbaijan where almost everything is theirs. The daughters of President Aliyev, Leyla and Arzu who despite their young age have a fortune hold some of the country’s media, including Azerfon, a communications giant which is the third biggest company of Azerbaijan.

New revelations circulated in recent days also argue that Leyla and Arzu Aliyev are also the owners of the phone company Azercell and many other companies who have chosen to live abroad in tax havens. Azercell is the first phone company with 50% of the Azerbaijani market before Bakcell and Azerfon. These revelations recently released state that the two largest Azerbaijani companies belong to the Aliev family … and even probably the third largest Azeri society.

But the non-transparency of companies registered in tax havens make it difficult traceability and the name of their owners. Prices on mobile communications remain very high in Azerbaijan due to the monopoly of Aliev clan. One more example of this dictatorship that the grip on the major part of the economy, to the detriment of the people.

Krikor Amirzayan

Smbat Tsakanyan kidnapped by Azerbaijani saboteurs – NKR Prosecutor’s Office

July 18, 2014 By administrator

The investigation conducted by the NKR law enforcement bodies has revealed that 17-year-old Karabakh citizen Smbat Tsakanyan was kidnapped by the members of the Azerbaijani commando group who entered the territory of NKR’s Karvachar region, the press service of the NKR Prosecutor’s Office reports.

Smbat Tsakanyan’s body was found in the forest near Karvachar and Manashid villages in NKR’s Shahumyan region on July 15. Gunshot wounds were found on his body. Tsakanyan was reported missing on July 8.

Smbat Tsakanyan was kidnapped by Azerbaijani citizens Shahbaz Jalal Ogli Guliyev, 46, Dilham Gardashkhan Ogli Askerov, 54, and a third member of the commando group who was eliminated while showing resistance, the NKR Prosecutor’s Office said.

The criminal case opened over the murder of Smbat Tsakanyan has been sent to the NKR National Security Service, to be joined with the criminal case filed earlier.

Foreign Minister of Sweden: Authoritarian political regime of Azerbaijan will create problems for us

July 17, 2014 By administrator

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt expressed doubts about the sincerity of the Azerbaijani authorities for participating in the EU program “Eastern Partnership”, reports the Azerbaijani news agency “Turan.”

“Azerbaijan is a special story. They are sitting on oil and have a somewhat more authoritarian political development that would create problems for us,” he said during his speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

Bildt noted that the program of “Eastern Partnership” faces greater challenges than in the time of its adoption in 2008.

According to him, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are actively moving forward on the path of European integration, Armenia has decided to join the Customs Union and the situation with Belarus remains unclear.

Erdogan playing “an Armenian card” blackmails Baku with opening Armenia border

July 17, 2014 By administrator

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pressing Azerbaijan to close Gulen schools, Turkish media reported.

According to Rotahaber website, the PM is threatening Azerbaijan to open border with Armenia. The author says the evidence is an article published by Taraf newspaper suggesting that Erdogan plans to open Armenia-Turkey border in September.

Interestingly, U.S. President Barack Obama has been recently refusing to communicate with Erdogan, while the latter is trying to revive relations with Washington by playing “an Armenian card”.

“If necessary, after settling relations with Washington, he will resume relations with Armenia, thus abandoning his promise in return for closing Gulen schools in Azerbaijan,” the article reads.

Routes from Azerbaijan to Karvachar to be mined: Defense Minister

July 17, 2014 By administrator

All the possible routes from Azerbaijan to Karvachar region of Nagorno Karabakh will be mined, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said today.

“The Defense Army of Nagorno Karabakh is taking the appropriate measures to discover the possible routes of penetration from Azerbaijan into Karvachar, including work on mining of those paths,” Ohanyan said at the government session Thursday.

In his words, the members of the Azerbaijani commando group who made an incursion into the territory of Nagorno Karabakh were found and rendered harmless.

“The alert level on the frontline has been raised. The commanders of the NKR Defense Army are taking all necessary measures. Work is being done with the population,” the minister said.

According to him, the Azerbaijani diversionist who was the last to be detained is suspected of killing Smbat Tsakanyan, a 17-year-old resident of Nor Erkedj village in Karvachar region, Nagorno Karabakh.

source: Aysor.am

Karabakh: More civilian deaths reported as authorities start prosecution of Azeri saboteurs

July 16, 2014 By administrator

GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter

According to the most recent reports from Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian villagers was killed by sniper fire when working on the land, while the body of a 17-year-old resident of the Karvachar district, who had been missing since July 4 and whose disappearance was linked to the recent sabotage activities of Azerbaijani forces, was found quite a long distance from his community.

According to official reports, Arvid Danielyan, a resident of the Askeran district of the NKR, was operating a tractor in the field when he was fatally shot in the head. A criminal case has been instituted in connection with this killing.

It also became known that the body of 17-year-old Smbat Tsakanyan, from the village of Nor Erkej of the Karvachar district, was found. His parents think their son was kidnapped and then killed by Azeri commandos. Talking to reporters on Tuesday, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan did not rule out a connection between the teenager’s disappearance and the Azeri infiltration in Karvachar.

An Azeri reconnaissance-sabotage group attempted to penetrate into the Armenian-controlled territory last Wednesday, but its movement was spotted by frontline Karabakh units that managed to thwart the raid. Some of the group members were captured, others fled, according to the report. Later, one of the members of the group that managed to penetrate into Karvachar attacked a car, killing 42-year-old officer Sargis Abrahamyan and wounding the wife of another serviceman, 37-year-old Karine Davtyan. The attacker was later killed by Armenian forces. Two other members of the group were apprehended by Karabakh forces that reported the “neutralization” of all saboteurs on Monday afternoon.

The arrested saboteurs were identified as 46-year-old Shahbaz Guliyev and 56-year-old Dilham Askerov. According to the NKR Prosecutor’s Office, both of them were armed with automatic weapons, pistols with silencers, as well as hand grenades that were used in the reconnaissance-sabotage activities and espionage operations.

It said that a third person, whose personal data were being specified, was killed after showing resistance at the time of his arrest.

Earlier on Tuesday, Armenia’s defense minister also spoke about the criminal case against the Azeri saboteurs, saying that they will answer for their actions according to both Armenian laws and the requirements of international norms.

In response to claims in Azerbaijan that the arrested Azeris should be given prisoner of war status, which means that they are subject to repatriation, the Armenian side said it had ‘irrefutable evidence’ that they were members of a ‘criminal group’ recruited by Azerbaijani authorities for the purpose of carrying out sabotage activities.

Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan, in response to the Azeri application to the International Committee of the Red Cross, said that the order of communication with the members of the Azeri sabotage group would be specified after the publication of the charges brought against them as part of the criminal case.

Meanwhile, the latest Karvachar incidents fueled more speculation in Armenia about the possibility of renewed hostilities in Karabakh. But Deputy Director of the Yerevan-based Caucasus Institute, political analyst Sergey Minasyan said the events in Karvachar are not an indication of a planned full-scale war, as at this moment there is only “a psychological battle of nerves between the two sides” and “these are common signs of military activity, after which there will be a period of relative calm.”

According to political analyst Tigran Abrahamyan, Azerbaijan has made some tactical changes in its steps on the frontline and now the Karabakh resettlement process has become the target for Azeri forces.

“It is known that at various international structures Azerbaijan has constantly raised the issue of Artsakh’s resettlement, stating that the process is contrary to the logic of the negotiations. Realizing that these arguments are devoid of logic and that the war rhetoric does not prevent the resettlement process, Azerbaijan has resorted to unacceptable steps as it uses terrorist actions to intimidate the people who have either settled down or have a desire to live in Artsakh,” the analyst said.

Georgia puts an end to import of 3 tons of liquid heroin from Azerbaijan that equal to hundreds of millions of dollars

July 12, 2014 By administrator

Georgian police and the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance confiscated almost three tons of liquid heroin today as a result of the joint operational-investigative activities. It was an attempt of transportation of heroin from Azerbaijan to Georgia, ntv.ru reports.

Georgian Interior Ministry reported that the law enforcement agencies have never confiscated such a big amount of drugs.

Nearly thirty-liter, hundred containers for liquid soap filled with liquid heroin were found in a truck, which entered Georgia from Azerbaijan and was heading to Turkey. The Interior Ministry reported that two Georgian citizens are arrested in connection with this case.

The preliminary examination showed that the detected substance contains 80% pure heroin, the market value of which is hundreds of millions of dollars.

The case of the illegal drug transportation through Georgia is under investigation.

The U.S. State Department report on the control of drug trafficking was noted that Azerbaijan is a transit country for drugs from Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia to Russia and Europe. The report also said that the number of addicts has increased in Azerbaijan. Heroin is the most popular drug in Azerbaijan, besides, narcotic plants grow there.

According to a UN report, of “Northern Balkan Route” drug trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe lies precisely through Azerbaijan. Drugs freely cross Azerbaijan-Turkey-Iran route. The second, “Old Balkan Route” lies straight through Iran to Turkey. People engaged in the smuggling are mainly assisted by the Azerbaijani and Kurdish population of northern Iran. The third way is through Azerbaijan and the Caucasus which lies through the Turkmen seaport after Turkmenbashi, in Baku. Here the drugs are easily smuggled into Russia.

In September 2010, the Deputy Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Rustam Usubov said that through the territory of Azerbaijan carried about 35% of the drugs illegally produced in Afghanistan.

Moreover, the telegram to former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse, which was published by the WikiLeaks, read that the drug mafia in Russia is largely controlled by ethnic Azerbaijanis.

Source: Panorama.am

Daily Mail: Close ties of British Prince Andrew with corrupt leadership of such countries as Azerbaijan gives rise to questions

July 11, 2014 By administrator

British Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is in close ties with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Robert Dudley – the head of the British company British Petroleum, who is a major investor in the oil sector of Azerbaijan, the British newspaper Daily Mail reports.

Duke of York held a private meeting this week with the boss of BP, Bob Dudley. “More than a year after Andrew quit his trade envoy post, he summoned Britain’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, Peter Bateman, to a private meeting at the Palace. Duke’s links with the country, ruled by one of the most corrupt regimes in the world gave rise to many questions,” the article reads.

According to the Daily Mail, the press service of Prince Andrew confirmed the fact of the private meeting with Bob Dudley, but refused to comment on the details.

Last December, a BP-led group signed a deal in Azerbaijan that paved the way for a $45 billion pipeline project that will provide a fourth major route for natural gas to flow to the European market, the article notes.

The Duke has visited Azerbaijan’s leader some eight times in six years, the article reads. “His dealings with the despot range from official trips and private holidays to throwing a luncheon for President Aliyev at Buckingham Palace,” is noted in the article.

Karabakh MOD publicizes Azerbaijani saboteur’s photos (PHOTO)

July 11, 2014 By administrator

July 11, 2014 | 10:33

STEPANAKERT. – The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Ministry of Defense (NKR MOD) has released new photos that attest to the Azerbaijani sabotage and infiltration attempt.

“The Azerbaijani propaganda was by no means willing to accept reality. It denies any information that reveals the adventurist conduct of the neighboring country. Since the latter has also denied the authenticity of the photos we have released and the belonging of the evidence depicted therein to Guliyev Shahbaz Jalaloghlu—the captured member of the [Azerbaijani] sabotage and intelligence team—, we also present his photos that were taken by us,” the NKR MOD statement reads.

Earlier, the NKR MOD had released photos which prove the infiltration attempt by an Azerbaijani sabotage and intelligence team.

The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Ministry of Defense had shown the weapons which it had confiscated from the Azerbaijani saboteurs.