(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Added details (first version published at 10:48)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 16. Another
criminal group has been identified in Azerbaijan, acting upon the
instructions of Iran, trend reports citing a joint
statement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Security
Service and the Prosecutor General's Office.
Regular operational measures were carried out to stop
the criminal actions of a group of Azerbaijani citizens recruited
by the Iranian special services through religious propaganda and in
exchange for material interest in order to destabilize the
situation on the territory of Azerbaijan.
It was identified that Rufulla Akhundzade and his son
Almursal Akhundzade, who collaborated with the special services of
Iran, developed an action plan to organize armed riots on the
territory of Azerbaijan.
As part of the plan, Rufulla Akhundzade created
special groups in WhatsApp, Telegram and other messengers. In
addition, Rufulla Akhundzade and his son presented to the members
of the group a list of officials and public figures for the
organization of assassination attempts on their lives, their
personal data, addresses of places of residence and work. He gave
instructions to the members of the group to purchase firearms.
During the operation, Elgun Agayev, Ruslan Aliyev,
Yusif Mirzoyev, Elvin Jafarov, Savalan Huseynli, Bilal Sujaddinli,
Maharramali Musayev and other members of the group were
detained.
Rufulla Akhundzade was engaged in instructing the
listed persons and constantly held online meetings with them in
order to keep them under influence. The members of the criminal
group said in their testimony that they were preparing to carry out
various subversive actions, organize mass riots and other similar
activities, as well as to attract other persons to the "resistance
group" on the instructions of Rufulla Akhundzade.
In addition, they wrote radical religious slogans on
the streets near the administrative buildings of various state
bodies, photographed them and shared these photos on social
networks. Rufulla Akhundzade also planned to send members of the
group to Iran under the pretext of receiving religious education,
but in fact to involve them in military exercises and involvement
in illegal armed extremist organizations.
The members of the group also sent money from abroad
to promote religious radicalism in Azerbaijan and finance other
subversive activities.
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