MINISTRY OF NATIONAL SECURITY OF AZERBAIJAN DETAINS WANTED SWINDLER
Trend News Agency
June 25 2008
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Baku, 25 June / corr. TrendNews E. Huseyinli/ The
48-year old Baku resident Meykhanim Mursalova Baba gizi, who was
engaged in fraud and cheated people by betraying their confidence,
has been detained, the Public Relations Office of the Ministry said
to TrendNews.
A case has been filed against Mursalova into fraud (Article 178 of the
Penal Code) in 2007, but she avoided investigation since then. The
Police Department of the Nasimi district of Baku has been trying to
detain her since then.
The investigation revealed that Mursalova got acquainted with
Huseyn Huseynov, resident of Kovlar village of Sabirabad region in
mid-2007. When she found out that Zaur Huseynov, brother of Huseyn
Huseynov has been missing since 1994 during fight for release of the
Azerbaijani territories occupied by the Armenians and she decided
to take advantage of it. Mursalova introduced herself as Mehriban
Mehtizade and won the sympathy of Huseynov and promised to help
him to find his missing brother. Later Mursalova got acquainted
with the other brother of Zaur Huseynov and his parents living in
Sabirabad region. Mursalova said them that Zaur Huseynov has been
taken hostage by the Armenians. She appropriated big sum of money by
cheating them and promising that she will help to release their son
from the Armenian captivity.