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An extremist group planning sabotage and hostage-taking crimes has been exposed.
Through complex operational-investigative measures carried out by the State Security Service, it was established that citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan - Shahmurov Fakhraddin Haji oglu, born in 1984, Muradov Jalal Muraj oglu, born in 1960, Babayev Kamran Kamil oglu, born in 1998, and others - conspired to create a criminal group with the aim of committing grave and especially grave crimes against the foundations of the constitutional order of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and prepared to commit sabotage acts against state institutions on the territory of the Republic by organizing secret meetings and various closed groups on social networks.
It was determined that during a secret meeting organized with the participation of a foreign citizen, it was announced that criminal organization’s flag was composed which was later presented to Fakhraddin Shahmurov to enable him to lead the development of plans and conditions for crimes to be committed in the name of the goals of the organization.
A sabotage plan elaborated by Fakhraddin Shahmurov together with other members of the criminal group, to seize a customs post located on the state border of the Republic of Azerbaijan in an organized group in order to damage the country's defense capability and economic security and to take hostage the employees and other persons serving there in order to put forward the demands of the criminal organization, however the illegal actions of the organized group were prevented by the undertaken measures.
Fakhraddin Shahmurov was arrested under Articles 28.282.2 (preparation for sabotage by an organized group), 28.215.3 (preparation to take people hostage), 218.1 (creation of a criminal group (organization) and 281.2 (dissemination of materials containing calls against the state) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, while Jalal Muradov and Kamran Babayev were held criminally liable under Articles 281.2 and other articles of the Criminal Code, and other persons were also brought to trial.
Currently, complex investigations on the criminal case are ongoing.