SACKED AZERBAIJANI RAILWAY PERSONNEL ACCUSE MINISTER OF CORRUPTION, EMBEZZLEMENT
By empty (4/29/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A group of former railway workers presented journalists in Baku on 28 April with the findings of an investigation into embezzlement and mismanagement by Transport Minister Ziya Mamedov. Among other things, they accused Mamedov of selling rolling stock abroad for scrap metal and counterfeit train tickets, adding that reports that he connived in the shipping of goods via Azerbaijan to Armenia are still being verified. (zerkalo.Visit also
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