Azerbaijan
Woman reportedly runs away from court in Azerbaijan prior to sentencing
Lala Novruzova was convicted of embezzling over ₼64,000 ($38,000) from the arts centre where she worked.
Corruption
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Daghestan
Daghestan’s former prime minister Gamidov sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption
Abdusamad Gamidov was found guilty of accepting a large-scale bribe.
Ingushetia
Chief doctor of an Ingush perinatal centre accused of embezzlement
Madina Khutieva has been charged with embezzling more than ₽8.7 million ($87,000) in extra-budgetary funds.
Armenia
Yerevan municipal government officials arrested on bribery charges
The mayor’s office has confirmed the arrests, and said it was cooperating with the investigation.
Armenia
Outrage after Yerevan’s Mayor calls local media a ‘big garbage dump’
The comments came after Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan was investigated for corruption by CivilNet and the OCCRP.
Azerbaijan
Former Azerbaijani MP sentenced to eight years in prison for extortion
Former Azerbaijani MP and businessman Nazim Baydamirli has been sentenced to eight years in prison by the Baku Grave Crimes Court on charges of extortion. Baydamirli was sentenced on 30 September, following over a year spent in pre-trial detention. His lawyer, Agil Layij, told Meydan TV that the charges against his client were unfounded. Likewise, Baydamirli’s wife, Farida Baydamirli, told OC Media that his arrest was absurd. She said that the family never expected such a thing would
Bidzina Ivanishvili
Georgian Dream denies allegations that Ivanishvili’s wife owns Russian real estate
A report by the Organized Crime Reporting Project (OCCRP) has alleged that Ekaterina Khvedelidze, the wife of Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili, possesses three undisclosed plots of land in Moscow, one bought as recently as this year. The joint investigation by OCCRP, iStories, GMC, Studio Monitori, and iFact found that the three plots of land were recently purchased as an expansion to three other adjacent plots Ivanishvili’s family acquired prior to 2012. This included a house that w
