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Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 12
Trend:
An operation carried out by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service detained the journalists who have been involved in racketeering, illegal activity for over 10 years and illegally filming the officials’ children, Madat Guliyev, head of the Security Service, told reporters in Baku.
The journalists, who were engaged in racketeering, demanded money for the footage they filmed, he added.
“The Azerbaijani State Security Service has filed a criminal case and this issue will be legally assessed,” Guliyev said.
Earlier, the State Security Service said a group of individuals conspired to use the technical means intended for secretly obtaining information and organized meetings of women with different people.
Filming those meetings secretly, blackmailing and regularly spreading defamatory and slanderous information via news outlets, those individuals demanded and received large sums of money from their victims in return for ending those blackmails.
A criminal case was filed following an investigation.
Criminal proceedings were launched against Surhay Aliyev, editor in chief of ‘Bizim Dovr’ newspaper, and other people who carried out activity upon his orders, as the people suspected of committing the mentioned offenses.