TURKISH BUSINESSMAN GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE IN AZERBAIJAN
BBC Monitoring Service, Lider TV,
24, September 2007
A Turkish businessman has received a five-year suspended sentence in Azerbaijan for power abuse and embezzlement, Lider TV reported on 24 September.
Huseyin Arabul, president of Barmek Azerbaijan which operated the power grids of the capital Baku and the city of Sumqayit between 2002 and 2005, was also fined 1.6m dollars together with another company official, Omer Gunel Ismayil.
Five other company officials received suspended sentences ranging from one to three years.
Analysts attribute the Turkish businessman's conviction to his alleged ties with Azerbaijan's former Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev, who was fired and arrested in 2005 on attempted coup charges.
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