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The criminogenic situation is completely under control in Azerbaijan, Zakir Garalov, the country’s prosecutor general, told reporters Oct. 1 in Baku.

Garalov said most of the high-profile crimes have been successfully investigated.

Investigation on most of those crimes was completed and the criminal cases have been directed to courts, while the remaining cases are being reviewed, he added.

The prosecutor general noted that there are shortcomings in the work of prosecution authorities, however, a work is underway to eliminate those shortcomings.

Garalov further went on saying that Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has taken under a serious control every criminal case in connection with cases of violence against Azerbaijanis in this country.

Garalov said that phone conservations were held and there was an official correspondence between the Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office and the Ukrainian side, which has seriously considered this issue.

Ukraine’s prosecutor general will receive the chairman and representatives of the Azerbaijani commune in Ukraine in the near future and all measures will be taken in order to investigate these cases, he added.

Earlier, Garalov appealed to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in connection with the cases of violence against Azerbaijanis in this country in recent times.

Garalov then touched upon a Gulen's movement. He said that General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan and Turkey continue joint efforts to identify ties of representatives of Fethullah Gulen’s Hizmat movement in Azerbaijan with its supporters in Turkey.

Earlier, General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan sent a petition to the Prosecutor General of Turkey in accordance with the European Convention to conduct investigative actions on the territory of this country in order to identify the connections of the Hizmat movement’s representatives in Azerbaijan with its supporters in Turkey and other foreign countries, its funding sources and other details.

In the near future, head of the criminology department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan will again visit Turkey, where the cooperation on this issue will be continued, said Garalov.

Earlier, General Prosecutor’s Office, Interior Ministry and State Security Service of Azerbaijan created a joint operational-investigative group within the framework of the criminal case initiated on Aug. 12 in connection with the investigation and prevention of illegal acts to promote the Hizmat movement in Azerbaijan, the incitement of social, religious hatred and enmity, restriction of the rights of citizens.

An Istanbul court released an order for Gulen’s arrest on Aug. 4.

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