Azerbaijan
Senior Nakhchivan official arrested by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service
Azerbaijan’s State Security Service has arrested a senior customs official in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan in a special operation. Mansur Asgarov, the head of the Customs Tariff Regulation and Payments Department of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic’s State Customs Committee, was arrested on charges of embezzlement. On Thursday, the Sabail District Court of Baku ordered Asgarov be detained for four months while the case was investigated. The State Security Service (DTX) reporte
