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15:19, 1 July 2025

Two Sputnik Azerbaijan employees arrested

Security officials detained seven people in the office of Sputnik Azerbaijan in cases of fraud, illegal entrepreneurship and property laundering, two of them were arrested.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, on June 30, law enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan came with a search to the office of the Russian agency "Sputnik Azerbaijan", whose activities had previously been officially suspended in the country. Despite this, the office continued to function, and the agency's employees went to work, Azerbaijani media reported. Azerbaijani security officials detained two people in the office of Sputnik Azerbaijan, calling them undercover agents of the Russian special services.

On June 28, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry called on the Russian authorities to investigate the deaths and injuries of Azerbaijanis who suffered as a result of a special operation by security forces in Yekaterinburg, and to punish those responsible. In light of the incident, the visit of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk to Azerbaijan was cancelled. In connection with the events in Yekaterinburg, the Azerbaijani side considered it inappropriate for Overchuk or any other Russian official to visit the country. Also in Azerbaijan, concerts, festivals and performances with the participation of the Russian side have been cancelled.

Azerbaijani police conducted a raid on the Baku office of Sputnik Azerbaijan, and seven people were detained, the APA agency reports, citing the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A criminal case has been opened under articles on fraud, illegal entrepreneurship and legalization of property acquired by criminal means. Two of the seven detainees have been arrested, and the remaining five have been charged, the publication says.

Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, speaking about the detention of Sputnik Azerbaijan employees, said he hopes for direct communication with the Azerbaijani leadership. "We believe that this emotional, extremely emotional reaction will be replaced by direct communication, during which all questions will be answered," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Recall that Akhliman Ganjiyev, detained in Yekaterinburg along with other ethnic Azerbaijanis, told his lawyer that he was beaten by security forces and tortured after his detention. Vugar Safarov claims that on the way to the police station he and his brother were insulted on the basis of their nationality and forced to eat dirt, and that his father, Mazahir Safarov, was repeatedly subjected to a taser. When they were detained, all were beaten. Kamal Safarov was taken to intensive care after his detention. The Russian Investigative Committee stated that one defendant in the contract killings in Yekaterinburg died of heart failure, and the cause of death of the second was "being determined." On the evening of June 30, the bodies of the Safarov brothers (also referred to in the media as the Sefarovs) were delivered to Baku. A relative stated that a new forensic examination of the bodies would be conducted in Azerbaijan, since he did not trust the conclusions of Russian experts.

The cause of death of Guseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, detained during a special operation by security forces in Yekaterinburg, was blows with a blunt object, an examination in Baku concluded. The Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan has opened a criminal case on charges of murder and torture.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/412713

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