Tax inspector arrested in Ganja on charges of taking a bribe from an entrepreneur
There are substantiated suspicions that state tax inspector Rufat Aliyev took a bribe from an entrepreneur in exchange for applying a smaller financial sanction during a tax inspection.
Rufat Aliyev, a state tax inspector of the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy, has been arrested on charges of taking a bribe from an entrepreneur operating in the city of Ganja. The Anti-Corruption Directorate under the Prosecutor General and the State Tax Service issued a joint statement on this.
The statement said that, based on information received from the State Tax Service about the official's illegal actions, a criminal case was opened under the relevant article of the Criminal Code following an operational-search measure conducted by the Anti-Corruption Directorate.
Investigative and operational-search measures established substantiated suspicions that Rufat Aliyev, a state tax inspector of the Operational Tax Control Measures Department of the Operational Tax Control Division of the Service's Territorial Tax Main Directorate No. 12, took a bribe in September 2026 from an entrepreneur operating in Ganja in exchange for applying a smaller financial sanction during a tax inspection.
Based on the evidence gathered, Rufat Aliyev was charged under Article 311.2 (bribe-taking by an official for illegal actions (inaction)) of the Criminal Code. By court decision, on the motion of the investigative body and the submission of the prosecutor overseeing the preliminary investigation, he was remanded in custody.
The Anti-Corruption Directorate is the body under the Prosecutor General's Office that investigates corruption crimes in Azerbaijan. Several reports of bribery cases involving tax officials have emerged in recent days; earlier, it was reported that the criminal case of three tax officials charged with a bribe of 200,000 manats had been sent to court.
