ArmInfo."It's no secret that Armenia has activated" brandy diplomacy "on the international arena and has bribed many politicians", the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, said this at a cabinet meeting yesterday, Trend reports.
He stressed that bribery was in the first place in Armenia's foreign policy in previous years. I believe that this issue should be very seriously investigated by the relevant international bodies, and the "politicians" who for twenty years supported the criminal regime, turned a blind eye to its crimes, received from it orders and medals must be brought to justice. Our demand is precisely this. If this does not happen, then nothing changes. If this is not done, then the current ridiculous statements of some international organizations on justice and human rights will remain absurd statements. If the international organizations that supported the Sargsyan regime, his actions, and covering their eyes, want to wash away their sin, they must admit that for 20 years they have been in agreement with the criminals, and thus, they have their part and their share in these crimes", said the President of Azerbaijan.
Meanwhile, as previously reported by the BBC with reference to a report on Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), from 2012 to 2014, the Azerbaijani authorities used a secret black box office to bribe European politicians, purchase luxury goods and launder money. In total, about $ 2.8 billion dollars was laundered through the "black cash". As stated in the investigation, the money in this scheme allegedly came in through four dummy companies registered in Britain. Most of the money was transferred to lobbyists, journalists, politicians from European countries and businessmen who had to defend the interests of the Azerbaijani government, the report said. There is no reason to assert that all people who received money knew about their origin, the report's authors add. The origin of the money received in the "black cash" remains unclear until the end, the report says. However, there is reason to assert that the "cash desk" was connected with the family of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.