Who embezzled the money written on “dead cards” in military units? – 2024-03-08 11:09:38

The trial on the criminal case of former head of the Ministry of Defense’s Finance and Budget Department Major General Nizami Mammadov, former head of the Financial Service of the Air Force, colonel Jalal Kazimov, head of the financial department of the Ground Forces Bayram Bayramov and former head of the financial service of the Navy Vusal Alizade process was held.

Publika.az Referring to Telegraf.com, it is reported that on December 29, the chiefs of the financial services of the “N” military units of the Air Force testified at the meeting chaired by judge Fikret Aliyev at the Baku Military Court.

Magsud Iskenderov, who first testified as a witness, said that he has been in military service since 2013.

According to him, financial embezzlement was allowed in the military unit in July 2018: “I myself was a participant in these cases. Accounts related to financial affairs were opened, money was transferred to that account. We solved the cases and presented the additional percentages to the bosses.”

According to the witness, Jalal Kazimov was its chief from 2018 to December 17, 2020. The orders were agreed with the head of the service to which he was subordinate: “According to this agreement, we already wrote the funds related to the needs of the personnel in an exaggerated manner. We had “dead cards” in our hands. We transferred salaries to those cards. But card holders were not available. We prepared documents for transferring salaries to “dead cards” by recording names and surnames. Those money were also taken by us. Our bosses knew about this, but they didn’t say anything. Because they were getting interest.”

Magsud Iskenderov said that after these cases were revealed, financial audits were conducted in the military unit where he worked: “During the audit conducted by the Ministry of Finance, the fact of embezzlement of 945,000 manats was determined. In this regard, an act was drawn up in the investigation. I personally participated in the inspections and signed the prepared act. “I agreed with the embezzlement fact written in the act during the investigation.”

Magsud Iskandarov said that he accepted the embezzlement of AZN 350,000 during the investigation at the State Security Service. He paid 131 thousand manats of the embezzled funds during the investigation period.

He said that he has undertaken to pay the remaining amount. He noted that he will pay the rest of the embezzled amount in the near future.

Answering the questions, the witness said that the money transferred to the financial account opened in the military unit was distributed by them: “We did 35-65 percent of work every month. I delivered 65 percent of the money to chief Jalal Kazimov. The remaining 35 percent was left to me.”

At that time, the accused Jalal Kazimov, who gave a statement, said that the figures were exaggerated and the indictment stated: “Because the official documents were destroyed. All this is written on the basis of probabilities. I have accepted the written interest. But I don’t know the numbers. Because it was necessary to determine the official documents in order for the figures to be accurate. It also took a long time. All this did not happen. The numbers were exaggerated based on probabilities.”

Witness Magsud Iskenderov later said that Fuzuli Alakbarli, who came to the military unit for inspection, asked him for money for delivery and said that this was the order of the superior: “I gave Fuzuli Alakbarli twice – 135 thousand manats once and 141 thousand manats once. According to him, he delivered the money to Jalal Kazimov.

Jalal Kazimov said that he was not aware of those funds. The accused said that at that time, by order of the minister, his place of work was changed to Nakhchivan, and it was impossible for him to receive the mentioned funds.

Another witness, Ayaz Aliyev, said that in 2018-2019, the head of the financial service worked in the military unit. According to the witness who said that he currently works as the head of the financial service in another military unit, he committed acts of embezzlement in the previous military unit.

The witness who said that he had the Covid disease added that he does not remember anything clearly, he has lost his memory. According to the witness who confirmed his statement during the investigation, what was written there reflects the truth: “I forgot how much money was embezzled, who was given what.” I have paid 80,000-90,000 manats of the embezzled money belonging to me. I know that we returned 65 percent of the money transferred to the account. That percentage reached Jalal Kazimov.”

Jalal Kazimov said that the military unit of the Air Force would be inaugurated: “It was a big event. But things were unfinished. Electricity was not even connected to the military unit. Ramiz Tahirov instructed that the opening of the military unit will take place and a generator should be purchased. I also spent the allocated funds on these works of the military unit. Because there was no time to wait for these things to be done. The President will attend the opening of the military unit. We solved these cases at a high level in a short time so that everything is in order.”

The next process will continue on January 12.

It should be noted that the former head of the Finance and Budget Department of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Nizami Mammadov, the former head of the Financial Service of the Air Force, Colonel Jalal Kazimov, the head of the financial department of the Ground Forces, Bayram Bayramov, the former head of the financial service of the Air Force, Vusal Alizade. , the former head of the Ministry of Defense’s Procurement and Supply Department, Colonel Mahir Shirvanov, as well as the former head of the Ministry’s Procurement and Supply Department Malikmammad Gurbanov, the former head of the ministry’s housing operation department, Colonel Fikret Mirzayev, were arrested as a result of a special operation conducted by the State Security Service.

The defendants are accused of embezzling money allocated from the state budget.

It should be noted that the total damage caused to the state in the criminal case is 143 million manats. Criminal cases were sent to the court for consideration in separate proceedings. 40 million manats were paid for the total damage caused to the state during the investigation period.

The Ministry of Finance was recognized as a victim in the criminal case. Each of the defendants was charged with Article 179.4 of the Criminal Code (especially committing embezzlement by causing a large amount of damage).