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    HEAD OF BAKU AIRPORT'S SECURITY SERVICE IS SUSPECTED OF COLLABORATION WITH
    RUSSIAN SPOOKS

    Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 22:47
    PF in Security, Intelligence

    31 January 2008

    Azer-Press (Azerbaijan)

    BAKU, 31 JANUARY, AZER PRESS. Emil Suleymanov, the former head of the
    security service of the international airport of Baku, is incriminated with
    the transfer of very important state information to the Russian
    intelligence, the Echo newspaper reports, adding that it was found out that
    the hall in the airport building where the president of Azerbaijan Ilham
    Aliyev talked to governmental officials prior to leaving on his foreign
    trips was tapped - by officers of the airport's security service and Mr
    Suleymanov himself.

    Mr Suleymanov is a former KGB officer educated in Russia. He had headed a
    unit in the Military Counter-Espionage Service and then a department in the
    counter-espionage unit of the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan
    prior to his appointment to what turns out to be his last job. One more
    officer of the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan has been pointed
    at as a Russian spy alongside Mr Suleymanov.

    Mr Suleymanov and the IT engineer of the airport's security service Tahir
    Assadzade are charged with high treason, abuse of office and other crimes.
    The felons' dock also includes the colonel-lieutenant of the National
    Security Ministry Rafet Aliyev, the IT engineer of IT Faig Guliyev and the
    head of the service of operations Tamerlan Mikayilov. They are all charged
    with the unlawful possession and sales of weapons, ammunition and
    explosives, high treason and abuse of office under the relevant articles
    228, 274 and 302 of the Criminal Code. The preliminary hearing started
    yesterday and is continued today.

    The state prosecutor Togrul Husseinov asks for a behind-closed-doors trial
    owing to the national secrets involved.

    Btw, the US press came up with reports this week that the former envoy of
    Azerbaijan to UN Eldar Guliyev collaborated with the Russian spooks. Mr
    Guliyev left the diplomatic service of Azerbaijan in 2001.
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