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People making fake electronic documents to release prisoners exposed

In our country, decisive measures are being taken against and the principle of mandatory punishment is ensured for all manifestations of crime, including cybercrime, which is a new dangerous type that includes cases of illegal penetration into computer systems.

The real reformation of prisoners while serving their sentences, sincere repentance for their deeds, reconciliation with the victim and elimination of the harm caused are among the cases that serve as the basis for the application of the institution of parole and the transfer of these persons to an institution with a lighter regime.

However, despite such a humane approach applied by law enforcement and judicial authorities, cases of making fake applications of reconciliation on behalf of the victims and submitting illegally prepared documents for the purpose of mitigating the punishment are being observed.

Thus, the reconciliation statement of the legal heir of the victim, who was sentenced to imprisonment for committing a serious crime, aroused suspicion, and it was established that such an agreement was not reached by the Ministry of Justice, and the corresponding document was prepared fraudulently using a computer program. Since there were signs of cybercrime in that act, the materials were submitted to the State Security Service for investigation.

During the investigation of the criminal case, it was established that Sanan Mehdiyev, Ehtibar Mehdiyev and Vasif Ismayilov, who had previously served a sentence in the same penitentiary, entered into a criminal accord while at large, and by the order of various convicts, prepared fake statements which were allegedly certified by a notary and with a QR code placed on them about compensation for the losses and reconciliation on behalf of the injured parties in a number of cases, created an inauthentic page similar to the interface of the relevant official website and placed these documents there, and thus those applications were submitted during court proceedings under the name of documents placed on the official website and authenticated by QR codes.

At the same time, it was determined that the same criminal group used computer technologies to prepare fake documents indicating reconciliation with the injured party and compensation for losses in order to release a number of other convicts ahead of schedule. Sanan Mehdiyev, Ehtibar Mehdiyev and Vasif Ismayilov have been held accountable under articles 320.1 (illegal preparation and sale of official documents), 273-2 (forgery of computer data) and 294.3 (when falsification of evidence leads to serious consequences) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan the activity of the corresponding electronic page created by them has been stopped.

Currently, the State Security Service and the Ministry of Justice are continuing investigations to identify the full range of persons who used fake documents and other related features.