245,000 MANAT SCAM TARGETING KONUL KERIMOVA: Her House Sold to Another with Forged Documents

Some details have emerged from the criminal case of the accused individuals - Elchin Bagirov and Mubariz Mammadov - in which large-scale fraud was committed against several citizens, and the name of singer Konul Kerimova was also mentioned.

The editorial office reports, citing "Unikal", that the investigation has established that both accused individuals, by exploiting the trust of citizens and through deception, misappropriated the property of others by abusing their official positions and repeatedly forged other official documents that grant rights, with the intent to use them.

The indictment states that Mubariz Mammadov illegally seized apartment number 126, with an area of 156 sq. m., located in the "ARAZ T.I" LLC building at 46 Huseyn Javid Avenue, Yasamal district of the capital, despite the fact that the contract and financial certificate for this apartment belonged to Sakit Mammadov and were in the name of his wife, Shalala Mammadova, by abusing trust and deception without permission.

Specifically, on August 13, 2011, he illegally sold the apartment at Huseyn Javid Avenue, 48, Yasamal, in the office of "ARAZ T.I" LLC in neighborhoods 558 and 566, to Elbrus Hasanov for 156,000 manats and registered it in the name of his wife, Khanim Guliyeva.

In doing so, he committed fraud, causing significant damage to Sakit Mammadov in the amount of 156,000 manats.

Furthermore, while he was the head of "Hüquq-Ekspertiza Mərkəzi" LLC, Mubariz Mammadov made false promises to his acquaintance Behram Abbasov's child, Basrat Abbasov, the founder of "Konstra" MTK, that he would return apartments sold to various clients at a price lower than their value and illegally sold, and would refund the money to the individuals who bought the apartments, thereby extorting 408,000 manats for legal services. He also extorted 175,000 manats by falsely promising to organize the preparation of "Konstra" MTK's project documents and their approval by state expertise, thus misappropriating a total of 583,000 manats and committing repeated fraud.

In addition, he agreed with another accused individual, his acquaintance Elchin Bagirov, to find clients for selling apartments that did not actually exist, to prepare forged contracts and financial certificates, to create the impression that they had sold houses to clients, and to deceive them into paying various amounts of money.

Thus, in August 2022, Elchin Bagirov and Mubariz Mammadov found a client, Ilham Jafarov, and met with him at the office.

They presented apartment number 26, located at 48 Huseyn Javid Avenue, Yasamal district of the capital, which belonged to singer Konul Gamber gizi Kerimova based on a contract, to Ilham Jafarov. They then prepared forged and illegal documents and committed repeated fraud by selling the apartment for 245,000 manats.

Furthermore, despite apartment number 20, with an area of 156.85 sq. m., located in the "ARAZ T.P" LLC building, belonging to Muhammad Suleymanov, M. Mammadov prepared forged documents in the name of Gulsara Gadirova, the mother of Tabriz Gadirov, and sold the apartment for 163,000 manats.

It should be noted that Mubariz Mammadov is charged under Article 178.4 (fraud - when committed with causing particularly large damage) and 320.1 (forgery or illegal preparation of a certificate or other official document that grants rights or exempts from duties, or sale of such a document, as well as preparation or sale of a forged state award, stamp, seal, or letterhead of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the same purposes) of the Criminal Code, and Elchin Bagirov is charged under Article 178.3.2 (fraud - when committed with causing large damage) of the Criminal Code.

We would like to remind you that the court investigation is being conducted in a process chaired by Judge Elnur Nuriyev of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.