
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani MP resigns after ‘offering parliamentary mandate as collateral’
Independent Azerbaijani MP Rafael Jabrayilov resigned on Monday after he was accused of offering the certificate of his parliamentary mandate as collateral for a loan. This is not the first accusation of financial impropriety Jabrayilov has faced. Report, a Baku-based news agency, reported on 20 September that Jabrayilov used the certificate of his parliamentary mandate as collateral for a $300,000 loan. According to Report, he borrowed $300,000 in September 2015 in order to fund the con