Prosecutor’s comments on launch of new criminal case against imprisoned ex-minister

  26 August 2016    Read: 1004
Prosecutor’s comments on launch of new criminal case against imprisoned ex-minister
Azerbaijan’s Garadagh district prosecutor Natig Abdullayev has made comments on the launch of a new criminal case against the country’s former health minister Ali Insanov, who is serving his sentence in the Penitentiary Service’s Prison 13.

In his statement to APA on Thursday, the prosecutor said that according to information from the Penitentiary Service, a number of illegal items were found on some of the inmates during an inspection in Prison 13. He noted that some suspicious medications were found on former health minister Ali Hasanov too.

“It’s a great deal of psychotropic pills containing Diazepam, a tranquillizing drug, as well as potent Tramadol capsules, which is prohibited in the prison,” Abdullayev said.

He also added that while a service employee were drawing up a protocol, A. Insanov tried to prevent them, tore up the protocol, used force against a representative of authority and inflicted physical injury on him.

The prosecutor noted that the district prosecutor’s office conducted a preliminary inspection in this regard, and the former minister faced additional charged under Articles 315.2 (resistance or application of violence dangerous to life or health concerning the representative of authority), 234.1 (illegal purchase or storage without a purpose of selling of drugs or psychotropic substances in a quantity (amount) exceeding necessary for personal consumption) and 317-2.1 (manufacture, storage, carriage, transportation and use of prohibited items by inmates in correctional facilities).

Necessary investigative actions are underway, Abdullayev added.

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