YEREVAN COURT SENTENCED AZERI SPY TO 12 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT

Pan Armenian News
28.06.2005 05:44

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Yerevan Court of First Instance has sentenced Andrey
Maziyev accused in espionage in favor of Azerbaijan to 12 years
of imprisonment. The court considered the accusations on all the
three articles of the Criminal Code of Armenia proved. These three
articles are treason through espionage, plotting a terrorist act,
and plotting the murder of a state political figure, specifically,
the Armenian President, reported Regnum news agency. It should
be noted that the prosecution in the person of Prosecutor General
Aghvan Hovsepyan demanded that Maziyev be sentences to 13 years of
deprivation of liberty. When announcing the verdict the court took
into account the mitigating circumstances, specifically the frank
confessions of prisoner at bar, repentance and assistance to the
investigation. Upon the completion of the court hearing A. Hovsepyan
noted that “all special services engage in intelligence, however
organization of acts of terrorism and assassinations are specific
crimes that should be punished by law.” It should be reminded that
Maziyev cooperated with Azerbaijan’s special services from October
1999 to January 4, 2005. Since his recruitment he had a nickname of
Frolov and fulfilled a number of tasks.

He specifically collected and disseminated information about domestic
political and economic developments in Armenia, main political parties,
information on Armenia’s military, defense, and armed forces, as
well as foreign investments. He also gathered information about the
situation in Nagorno Karabakh, its society and leaders of main parties,
their shadowed business. Officers of special services of the Ministry
of National Security of Azerbaijan Faig Shamilov (the Armenian party
has announced a search for him), some Mahmud and Zaur, as well
as messengers Nodar and Zurab worked with Maziyev. On the whole,
Maziyev met with representatives of Azerbaijan’s special services 18
times and received approximately $2.5 thousand for his services. He
was also commissioned to take photos of the buildings of foreign
embassies, hotels, offices of political parties, state transport
numbers. Besides he was to find out detailed information about the
Armenian Nuclear Power Plant. Maziyev did not fulfill the task. At the
same time, when fulfilling the tasks of the Azeri special services,
Maziyev photographed Zvartnots airport, its landing strip, President
Kocharian’s plane landing at the airport, helicopters protecting the
territory of the airport, location of snipers, as well as the front
of the presidential residence.