Arrested on charges of receiving a bribe by lawyer Elchin Sadygov, he was taken to the Prosecutor General. This was reported to reporters by lawyer Javad Javadov.
According to him, the meeting of the Baku Court of Appeal in the case Elchin Sadygov was postponed. It was said to lawyers that due to the investigative actions, Elchin Sadygov was delivered from the SGB pre-trial detention center to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Consideration of his appeal is postponed tomorrow.
As Haqqin.az reported in relation to the head of the Xural TV Internet telekanal, the journalist Avaz Zeynalla and lawyer Elchin Sadygov opened a criminal case under articles 311.3.3 and 32.5, 311.3.3 of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. The statement of the Prosecutor General’s Office says that, having promised not to disseminate insulting information about the former head of Baku Steel Company Rasima Mammadov, Avaz Zeynalla in August 2022, with the mediation of lawyer Elchin Sadygov, received 20 thousand manat from Mamedov’s relatives as a bribe.