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Hospital director sentenced to 6 years for fraud in Tbilisi

8 February 2018 by OC Media

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Farman Jeyranli (pia.ge)

A Georgian citizen of Azer­bai­jani descent charged for fraud in Georgia has been sentenced to 6 years in prison. Farman Jeyranli, 59, was arrested on 20 May charged with ‘extorting a large sum of money from a patient through deception and hiding infor­ma­tion dangerous to a patient’s health’.

Jeyranli claimed that his detention was orches­trat­ed by the same group who he alleges abducted Azer­bai­jani jour­nal­ist Afgan Mukhtarli from Tbilisi on 29 May.

Jeyranli is the founder of Tbilisi-based medical clinic the Lancet. Tbilisi City Court found him guilty of extorting money but was acquitted on the charges of hiding infor­ma­tion from a patient.

The Tbilisi-based Human Rights Centre filed a case against the Lancet on 16 November 2016, for the death on 12 February 2016 of Giorgi Chu­binidze, after he received a liver trans­plant. They accused the Lancet of deceiving Chu­binidze into taking out a $40,000 loan to pay for treatment.

Jeyranli denied the charges against him, claiming he was a ‘personal hostage of Azer­bai­jani dictator Ilham Aliyev’.

On 4 May, Jeyranli was named alongside several prominent Azer­bai­jani oppo­si­tion activists and jour­nal­ists in exile, including Mukhtarli and oppo­si­tion politi­cian Gozal Bayramli, in an article on pro–Azerbaijani Gov­ern­ment news website Haqqin.az, which portrayed Tbilisi as a nest of anti-Azer­bai­jani sub­ver­sion. Bayramli was arrested by Azer­bai­jani police while crossing from Georgia on 25 May.

[Read more about Jeyranli’s case on OC Media: Georgian–Azerbaijani on trial for fraud in Tbilisi claims to be a ‘hostage of Azer­bai­jani dictator’]

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