Special service agencies are no longer the only authorized body in this sphere
Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry has been given additional powers to conduct preliminary investigation into cases of cyber crime.
This has been reflected in the law “On the approval of the Criminal Procedure Code of Azerbaijan, its enactment, and related issues of legislation” signed Monday by President Ilham Aliyev and the Azerbaijani president’s decree on making amendments to Decree 387 dated 25 Aug. 2000 on the law “On the imposition of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.”
To date, only special service agencies were authorized to conduct preliminary investigation into cases of cyber crime. From now on, interior ministry bodies (police) who have initiated the preliminary investigation into a case of cyber crime will be authorized to conduct preliminary investigation.
Note that, cyber crimes include Article 271 (unauthorized access to computer information), Article 272 (production, use and spread of detrimental electronic computer programs), Article 273 (violation of electronic computer, system or network operating rules), Article 273-1 (circulation of means prepared for committing cyber crimes), Article 273-2 (falsification of computer data). These articles envisage imprisonment for two to six years and fine by AZN 2,000 to 4,000.
Note, the State Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service under the Ministry of National Security were created Monday after President Ilham Aliyev signed such an order.
Azerbaijan
14 December 2015
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