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Azeri Pres. Allegedly Bugged in Airport
The trial is about to begin in a Baku military court of Emil Suleimanov, former head of the Baku airport security team accused of installing listening devices in the government VIP lounge in the airport and transferring state secrets to Russia. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev regularly uses that lounge. In addition to Suleimanov, airport employees Tahir Asadzade, Faik Guliev and Tamerlan Miyailov and lieutenant colonel in the Azeri Ministry of National Security Rafet Aliyev are also being charged.
The defendants are accused of illegal arms possession, treason, illegal investigation and abuse of office. The trial is not open to the public. They face 9 to 11 years in prison each. Suleiman worked for the KGB in Soviet times.
There have been several cases in Azerbaijan of spying for Russia. When former intelligence agent Col. Sergey Tretyakov, who worked in the Russian Embassy to the United Nations, defected to the American side in 2000, he named former Azeri ambassador to the UN Eldar Guliev as a Russian agent. Guliev denied knowing Tretyakov and the Azeri government has taken no action against him. Russia did not officially comment on that accusation.
The last case was in 2003, when three Azeri citizens received sentences of 10-11 years in prison for informing Russian military about Azeri military facilities and armed forces.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Feb. 01, 2008
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