Ilham Aliyev signed law on amendments to Criminal Code

Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic. The corresponding law was signed by President Ilham Aliyev. The text of the document is published on the website President.az.

Article 208.1 of the Criminal Code provided for restriction of liberty or imprisonment for up to three years in cases of non-return from abroad on a large amount received by the heads of organizations as a result of foreign economic activity and the obligatory transfer to the AR legislation to the account of the authorized person Bank of the country.

According to the amendment to the law, in case of non-return of foreign exchange funds from abroad, not only heads of organizations will be held accountable.