Businessman gets life sentence for ordering murders
BAKU – An Azerbaijani businessman and members of a 12-people-strong group he headed were convicted on Monday on charges of ordering murders of entrepreneurs.
Under the court ruling, Shohrat Guliyev and two others were handed down life imprisonment, while five more members of the criminal group will serve prison terms of two to 15 years. The other four persons saw the charges against them dropped.
Guliyev had ordered his accomplices to kill two businessmen for remuneration worth $25,000 for each murder.
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