The Baku Court for Grave Crimes found Aliyev guilty of tax evasion, illegal entrepreneurship, and abuse of office on April 22 and sentenced him the same day.

In his last testimony before his sentence was pronounced, Aliyev called the case against him politically motivated, saying he was prosecuted as punsihment for bringing more than 200 cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Aliyev was arrested in August. 

 

(RFE)