Haji Mammadov is a former officer of Crime Investigation Department of Interior Ministry of Azerbaijan. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 11 people and kidnapping of 10.

The gang

National Security Ministry detained Mammadov and the members of his gang on March 10, 2005. 26 people of the gang were tried in the court, who were accused under article 120 (deliberate slaughter) and article 144 (kidnapping) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.

Prosecutors said the gang killed 11 people and kidnapped 10 relatives of businessmen in the past decade and receiving a total of about US$5 million in ransom money.

Sentences

• Haji Mammadov - lifetime

• Musa Dabiyev - lifetime

• Eldar Rehimov - lifetime

• Farhad Mammadbeyov - lifetime

• Aslanbek Chintamirov - lifetime

• Malik Mammadov - lifetime

• Husain Abdulvahabov - lifetime and confiscation of properties

• Zakir Nasirov - lifetime, confiscation of properties and deprival of state title and awards

• Kamil Sedreddinov - lifetime, confiscation of properties and deprival of state title

• Yagir Mammadov - lifetime

• Nizami Abdullayev - 15 years and confiscation of property

• Sidek Abdulvahabov - 15 years

• Rovshen Agayev - 15 years

• Naile Guliyeva 13 years and confiscation of property

• Edalet Asadullayev - 12 years

• Novruz Nuriyev - 12 years

• Aligulu Guliyev - 10 years

• Nishad Ismayilov - 10 years and confiscation of property

• Faig Guliyev - 9 years

• Elchin Aliyev - 9 years and confiscation of property

• Mehman Hasanov - 8 years

• Fariz Hamidov - 8 years

• Elshen Mirzayev - 8 years

• Agil Huseynov - 2 year suspended sentence (not to hold any position)

• Azer Huseynov - 2 year suspended sentence

Victims

Murdered

• Azer Ismayilov department chief of Office to Fight Narcotic Drugs

• Fetullah Huseynov

• Rovshen Aliyev - criminalist invastigator who uncovered the gang

• Rena Nesibova

• Mehman Samadov

• Nazim Pashayev

• Nazim Pashayev's driver

• Musa Dabuyev

• Shirkhan Albiyev

Kidnapped

• Zamira Hajiyeva, - wife of the Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Bank of Azerbaijan, Jahangir Hajiyev

• Ahmed Mammadov - son of the Azersigorta state Company Chief Mammad Mammadov

• Ogtay Babayev

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Haji Mammadov gets life sentence

Today.az

January 19, 2007

A court sentenced 10 people, including several former top police officials, to life in prison Friday, after convicting them of involvement a gang that prosecutors said was responsible for killings and kidnappings in Azerbaijan.

Prosecutors said the gang killed 11 people and kidnapped 10 relatives of businessmen in the oil-rich Caspian Sea country over the past decade, receiving a total of about US$5 million (?3.9 million) in ransom money.

Among those sentenced to life were Zakir Nasirov, a former head of the Interior Ministry's criminal investigations department, who was stripped of his general's rank, and a high-level department investigator, Haji Mammadov, who prosecutors said was the gang leader, court officials said.

Another 13 defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from eight to 15 years, while two others were given two-year suspended sentence, and one was released, court officials said. Four of the defendants, including three sentenced to life, are Russian citizens and ethnic Chechens, they said.

The trial lasted six months at the grave crimes court in the former Soviet republic's capital, Baku.

Also sentenced to life was Kamil Sadraddinov, former deputy chief of the Interior Ministry's internal security department, court officials said. Sadraddinov and Mammadov still held their posts when they were detained in March 2005 along with 10 other suspects.

Among the victims prosecutors said were killed by the gang included a department head at the Interior Ministry's narcotics unit, Azer Ismaylov; a top prosecutorial investigator, Rovshan Aliyev; and the vice president of Azerbaijan's Association of Soccer Federations, Fatulla Huseynov.