Baku Releases Sputnik Azerbaijan Director Igor Kartavykh
Photo: Ill. purposes, Source - Minval.az, detentions of Sputnik employees.
The director of Sputnik Azerbaijan, Igor Kartavykh, who had been arrested earlier in Baku, has been released and flown to Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova announced, Orda.kz reports, citing Forbes Russia.
Last week, Kartavykh was transferred from pretrial detention to house arrest, a decision made shortly before the meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev in Dushanbe on October 9.
In a parallel development, Russia also released one of the Azerbaijani citizens detained on its territory. According to media reports, this refers to Mamedali Agaev, the former director of the Satire Theater, who had been arrested in a fraud case involving 20 million rubles.
A court granted the investigative body’s request to change Agaev’s measure of restraint to house arrest.
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