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An Albanian court has ordered the director of the State Intelligence Service (SHISH), Vlora Hyseni, to be put under house arrest and suspended from public duty as part of a sweeping investigation into public tender fraud, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPAK) announced Tuesday.

A Baku court convicted journalists, media rights workers, and pro-democracy activists linked to Toplum TV on financial crimes charges, sentencing them to between 12 and 15 years in prison.

Press freedom organizations say the lengthy sentences demanded for Toplum TV journalists are designed to stifle independent media exposing high-level corruption.

Sources within the oil industry in Baku say that the arrest of Adnan Ahmadzada is linked to efforts by Azerbaijani authorities to strengthen the country’s international image regarding Russian oil.

Sources in Azerbaijan’s oil industry told us that the arrest of Adnan Ahmadzada may be linked to efforts by Azerbaijani authorities to improve the country’s international reputation regarding the trade of Russian oil. The move could also be connected to recent statements by U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting that European countries should halt purchases of Russian oil.

Sources from the oil sector in Baku have told us that the arrest of Adnan Ahmadzada appears to be linked to efforts by the Azerbaijani authorities to improve the country’s international image regarding the trade of Russian oil.

A well-known oil trader from Baku, holding Russian, Maltese, and UAE residency status, is still finding ways to evade sanctions on Russian oil.

Our oil industry sources in Baku have informed us that the arrest of Adnan Ahmadzada is related to a push by the Azeri authorities to clean up Azerbaijan’s international reputation with regard to Russian oil.

In 2023, Rza Talibov liquidated assets amid a crackdown on his father’s oppressive regime in Nakhchivan, an autonomous region of Azerbaijan. Now, he has regained control of a luxury hotel and another property on the Black Sea coast of Georgia.

Aleksandr Zingman and his colleague Oleg Vodchits attended the United Nations’ climate conference in Baku. Zingman has been linked to opaque, environmentally damaging mining practices.

Even as Sulkhan Papashvili, one of Georgia’s richest businessmen, bought electricity from Azerbaijan’s state energy company, the family members of its leaders entered into business dealings with him on the side.