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Azerbaijani citizens participating in the activities of the terrorist group were detained and brought to the country.

Complex operational-investigative measures are being continued on criminal cases initiated by the State Security Service (SSS) regarding the formation of criminal gangs consisting of citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan with ties to international terrorist organizations, preparation of terrorist acts accompanied by the creation of underground shelters in the forest massive in the northern region of the country and provision of weapons, ammunition, explosives, technical devices and other necessary equipment for this purpose.

The conducted investigations established that citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan - Vugar Najafli, Jamal Gozalov, Tofig Yusifli and Dadash Hashimov, who were members of the gang created for the purpose of committing terrorist crimes, left the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2024 and hid in the mountainous areas located on the border of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with Afghanistan. It was determined that they participated in combat exercises and armed conflicts and underwent armed training for criminal purposes outside the borders of Azerbaijan as part of an international terrorist organization.

As a result of operational-search measures carried out by SSS in cooperation with partner foreign special service and law enforcement agencies, the persons under investigation were captured in foreign countries and brought to Azerbaijan.

The measures taken also revealed that the terrorist activities of Tofig Yusifli and Dadash Hashimov were financed by citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan - Mir Javad Huseynli and Tural Agayev and also established other criminal acts of the latters.

Members of the criminal group - Vugar Najafli, Jamal Gozalov, Tofig Yusifli, Dadash Hashimov, Mir Javad Huseynli and Tural Aghayev were brought to justice as defendants under Articles 214-1 (financing terrorism), 283-1.3 (propagating religious sects, participating in trainings and armed conflicts established outside the borders of the Republic of Azerbaijan under the guise of performing religious rites, on the basis of religious hostility) and other articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and a preventive measure of arrest was chosen for them by the court's decision.

Currently, investigative-operational measures on the criminal case are continuing.