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Persons planning terrorist acts in Azerbaijan have been exposed
During
the investigations carried out by the State Security Service (SSS) reasonable
suspicions arose, that in order to disrupt public security in the country,
create panic among the population and to influence the decision-making of the
state authorities and international organizations, the citizen of the Republic
of Azerbaijan, Askarov Bahruz Alimammad oglu, born in 1988, who lived in the Murmansk
city of the Russian Federation, in collaboration with other persons was
preparing to commit a terrorist act accompanied by actions which would result
in death of people and occurrence of other socially dangerous consequences.
It
was determined that Bahruz Askarov engaged individuals living in different
regions of the republic into secret communication and gave them instructions to
organize an assassination attempt on the life of the head of Lankaran City
Executive Power.
It
was also established that Bahruz Askarov instructed his contacts to carry out an
assassination of foreign citizen who works as an English language teacher in
some regions of Azerbaijan.
As
a result of the complex operational-investigative measures, Bahruz Askarov was
arrested and brought to criminal responsibility in the Republic of Azerbaijan
under Articles 28, 214.2.1 (preparation for terrorism) of the Criminal Code,
and by the court's decision pretrial detention was chosen about him.
At
the same time, it was determined that Bahruz Askarov planned to organize the
military training of the persons he had established contact with in the
territory of a foreign state, but as a result of the measures taken by the SSS,
he was unable to carry out these criminal acts.
At the moment, complex investigative and
operational measures are being continued in order to investigate all the
features of the criminal case.