A preliminary hearing was held against Hidayatov Zohrab Ragub oglu, Elvin Valeh oglu Shirinov and Gachgin Shura oglu Khumbatov in the criminal case investigated by the State Security Service.
Oku.AzAccording to information from the Sumgayit Serious Crimes Court, the information in the defendants’ questionnaire was clarified in the trial presided over by Fahmin Humbatov. The decision was made to submit the criminal case to trial without modifying the preventive detention measure chosen for the accused. The next trial is scheduled for November 7.
The defendants are charged with articles 192.3.2 and 206.3.2 of the Penal Code.
The investigation carried out at the Ministry of the Interior determined that Zohrab Hidayatov organized the export from the country of products belonging to various legal and natural persons on behalf of Elvin Shirinov and Gachgin Khumbatov, whom he registered as businessmen, and reported to the customs authorities. that the producers of these products intended for export were those people who presented false documents, smuggled more than 326 million manats by exporting especially large quantities of products without declaring them correctly, these illegal acts were also a method of withdrawing cash from the country and No. return it and establish an underground economy.
The press knows some interesting details about Elvin Shirinov, one of the accused. Thus, according to the “Export Reviews” of the Center for Analysis and Communication of Economic Reforms in recent years, while previously, for example, in 2021, Elvin Shirinov was generally not listed among non-state (private) exporting subjects, in In 2023, the state suddenly took first place in the top ten in the ranking of export entities. Such a jump in the rating did not go unnoticed by the press, naturally questions arose about the individual entrepreneur exporting agricultural products with NIF 2700187092, who “does not even have a small plot of land.” In the case under judicial review, Elvin Shirinov’s name is just one of the participants in the vast underground economy machination created by another defendant, Zohrab Hidayatov, who has not been mentioned anywhere before. Such machinations are known to be related to the goal of withdrawing funds from the country under another name, for example, in the form of purchased “agricultural products” and not returning them.
