Azerbaijan: another journalist-raketer was detained

In Azerbaijan, the head of the news portal, who was engaged in extortion, was arrested. This is stated in a joint statement by the Prosecutor General and State Security Service of Azerbaijan.

As Haqqin.az said, the main department for the fight against corruption at the Prosecutor General on the basis of the information received that the head of the Realxeber.org news site and the youtube channel Zaur Gafarov extorted money from the soldier under the threat of the spread of false and shameful information About him.

During the operational-search measures, reasonable suspicions were established that Z. Gafarov, through video-photographs, deliberately placed on the media platforms that he discredit and did not correspond to the video that the latter allegedly deals with affairs that defeat the name of the soldier . He threatened to distribute these videos among the general public and in return demanded from the last money.

Based on the collected preliminary evidence, a criminal case was opened under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code, Zaur Gafarov was charged under article 182.1 (extortion), a preventive measure in the form of detention was elected against him.

“The investigation is currently ongoing against other persons injured from the actions of Zaur Gafarov,” the joint message says.