Tax officials received a bribe of 200 thousand manats, but somewhere they made a mistake in the calculation. The main anti-corruption directorate under the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan opened a criminal case against the officials of the country's tax service, who are accused of not conducting a tax audit in exchange for a bribe. According to the researchers, in May 2026, the deputy head of the main department for operational tax control and accounting organization in the city of Baku, Aldeniz Ahmadov, the deputy head of the department for assigned areas, Rustam Mirzoyev, and the head of the fourth department of this department, Kenan Mamedov, received from the 200 thousand entrepreneurs of the Baku shopping center. The money is earmarked for not performing inspections, not applying fines and other similar actions. The above were charged according to Sections 311.3.1 and 311.3.3 of the Criminal Law (receiving bribes on an especially large scale by a group of people in prior conspiracy). The district court in Binagadi, at the request of the investigation, chose preventive measures against them in the form of arrest.
The case was sent to the Serious Crimes Court in Baku.