Former Head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. The court applied Article 70 (conditional sentencing) of the Criminal Code against him.
According to elchi, this was decided at a hearing chaired by Judge Murad Aslanov at the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.
The verdict stated that considering R. Mehdiyev’s health condition due to existing illnesses and his age, it was decided to apply the conditional sentence of imprisonment as per Article 70 of the Criminal Code.
It was also decided to send a submission for consideration regarding the deprivation of the former administration head of state awards.
Simultaneously, according to the verdict, special confiscation was applied to the property of Mehdiyev Ramiz Anvar oglu, to be transferred to the state.
It should be noted that a criminal case was opened against Ramiz Mehdiyev at the State Security Service in October 2025.
According to information released by the State Security Service, Azerbaijani citizens – Ramiz Anvar oglu Mehdiyev, Abbas Aydin oglu Abbasov, Ali Amirhuseyn oglu Karimli were detained by the State Security Service as a result of complex measures taken to prevent the subversive activities of foreign special services against Azerbaijan’s security, national interests, and benefits.
Furthermore, Eldar Amirov, a former employee of the Presidential Administration, was also detained in November 2025 in connection with the same criminal case.
According to the indictment, the leaders of the organization registered under the name “Union of Russian Organizations in Azerbaijan” and called the “Union of Billionaires,” created in a foreign country with the aim of interfering in Azerbaijan’s political processes by foreign special services – Abbas Abbasov Aydin oglu and Ibrahimov Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oglu, as well as Mehdiyev Ramiz Anvar oglu, Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Karimli Ali Amirhuseyn oglu, party members – Gahramanli Fuad Ali oglu, Zayidov Ganimat Salim oglu, and others, conspired to forcibly seize state power and forcibly change the country’s existing constitutional order.
The indictment states that in August-September 2025, Ramiz Mehdiyev presented a written material prepared in a foreign language under the title “Proposals for the Restructuring of the State Administration System,” containing secret plans and directions of activity against state power, to Ali Karimli through his assistant Eldar Amirov and others for agreement. Subsequently, on October 3, 2025, he sent the final edited version of the said writing through employees of “Sharq-Qərb” ASC, and the mentioned dispatch was technically recorded.
Ramiz Mehdiyev is accused of treason by collaborating with the said individuals and taking actions aimed at seizing state power with the help of foreign special services and forcibly changing the constitutional order, thereby providing assistance to representatives of a foreign state against Azerbaijan’s state security interests.
The indictment also emphasizes that Ramiz Mehdiyev legalized over 17 million manats obtained through criminal means by October 13, 2025.
In connection with the said actions, Ramiz Mehdiyev has been charged under Articles 193-1.3.2 (legalization of property obtained through criminal means in a significant amount), 274 (treason), and 278.1 of the Criminal Code.