Killed Azeri general’s aides get jail sentences
BAKU – An Azerbaijani court on Monday sentenced to jail sentences the aides of Air Force commander Rail Rzayev who was murdered in early 2009.
Anar Hashimov and Aydin Rafiyev and his son, Anar Rafiyev, were sentenced to seven, nine years and seven and a half years in prison respectively, according to a ruling of the Military Court of Grave Crime Cases.
According to the indictment, immediately after Lt.-Gen. Rzayev’s murder, his aides illegally entered his office and stole large quantities of jewelry, money worth 200,000 euros from a safe and other items that belonged to the Air Force commander.
The defendants denied the charges.
Rzayev, 64, was shot dead while in his car outside his home in the Yasamal district of Baku in February 2009. The crime has not yet been disclosed.
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