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.