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Court delivers sentence on Leyla and Arif Yunusovs (UPDATE)

Society Materials 13 August 2015 18:38 (UTC +04:00)
The court session on a criminal case launched against Leyla and Arif Yunusovs continued August 13 at the Baku Court of Grave Crimes

Details added (first version posted on 17:53)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 13

By Elchin Mehdiyev - Trend:

The court session on a criminal case launched against Leyla and Arif Yunusovs continued August 13 at the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.

The session was chaired by Judge Afghan Hajiyev.

Under the court decision, Leyla Yunusova was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison with confiscation of property, and Arif Yunusov was sentenced to seven years in prison with confiscation of property

Leyla Yunusova was charged under the articles 274 (high treason), 178.3.2 (fraud (by inflicting major damage)), 192.2.2 (illegal entrepreneurship), 213.2.2 (evasion from a large amount of taxes), 320.1 (forging a certificate or another official document providing rights or exempting from duties, in order to use or sell that document, as well as making for the same purposes or selling forged state awards of Azerbaijan Republic, stamps, seals, forms) and 320.2 (use of deliberately forged documents indicated in the article 320.1 of this Code) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.

Arif Yunusov was charged under the articles 274 (high treason) and 178.3.2 (fraud) of Azerbaijan's Criminal Code.

A separate lawsuit was filed for both individuals on the criminal case under article 274 (high treason).

The court's decision made August 13 applies only to criminal proceedings on the fraud, tax evasion, and others cases.

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