The next trial was held in the criminal case against Zahid Niftaliyev, a former employee of the Ministry of Defense, nicknamed “Shlyapa Zahid”, accused of embezzlement.
Oku.AzAccording to the information, the session chaired by the judge of the Baku Serious Crimes Court, Novruz Karimov, continued answering questions from the lawyer of the accused Z. Niftaliyev, Ali Adigozalov.
Zahid Niftaliyev clarified the issue of the 42 million manat loan formalized in his name at “Atabank” and stressed that he was not aware of it. Fazil Mammadov, former Minister of Taxes, said that he learned about the formalization of the loan in his name after his death. Z. Niftaliyev claimed that he signed contracts only on instructions from Najmeddin Sadikov. Regarding the payment of certain amounts to the bank at different times by Z. Niftaliyev during the loan period, he said that he was not aware of the payment of any debt to the bank:
“They opened a fake company in my name and carried out operations. Whoever did this dishonestly must be held accountable.”
The next court session is scheduled for November 27.
It should be noted that Zahid Niftaliyev was detained by the Main Investigation Department of the State Security Service.
During the investigation, the Ganja Court of Appeal accepted the prosecution’s protest against the verdict of the Tatar Military Court. Z. Niftaliyev was found guilty of falsifying charges and accepting a large amount of bribe and sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison.
Furthermore, within the framework of the criminal proceedings currently being investigated in court, Z. Niftaliyev is accused of having founded a formal company in his name and of not having executed the court ruling on the 42 million manat loan taken from “Atabank “with prejudice.
According to the indictment, Zahid Niftaliyev intentionally created a company called “Shahin-CO” in order to receive a loan in that amount and, by submitting false information about the economic and financial situation of the company to “Atabank” OJSC, it cost him 42 million 470 thousand 885 manats over a period of 12 months in 2016. By taking out a loan, he caused a lot of damage. He did not impartially execute court decisions regarding the payment of the loan taken from OJSC “Atabank”, which is in the process of liquidation. A criminal case was opened against him under Article 179.3.2 of the Criminal Code and the collected materials were sent to the Baku Serious Crimes Court for review.
Elgun Hasanli
