{"id":168121,"date":"2015-05-28T22:46:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/azerbaijan-slams-occrp-investigative-report-as-black-pr\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:19:13","slug":"azerbaijan-slams-occrp-investigative-report-as-black-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/azerbaijan-slams-occrp-investigative-report-as-black-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan slams OCCRP investigative report as \u2018black PR\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/25453\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25453\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/25453\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25453\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  <i><br \/>\n    Source: Azadliq.org, OCCRP<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ilham Aliyev\u2019s<br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    Aide<br \/>\n  <\/i><br \/>\n  \u00a0for Public and Political Affairs, Ali Hasanov, accused<br \/>\n  <b><br \/>\n    <i><br \/>\n      <a href=\"\/en\/article\/offshores-close-to-president-paid-nothing-for-state-share-of-telecom-repost\/\"><br \/>\n        OCCRP<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/i><br \/>\n  <\/b><br \/>\n  of black PR following the May 27, 2015 release of an investigative report documenting the opaque deal between Azerbaijan\u2019s Telecom Company and the Swedish-Finnish TeliaSonera,<br \/>\n  <b><br \/>\n    <i><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azadliq.org\/content\/article\/27041648.html\"><br \/>\n        Azadliq.org<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/i><br \/>\n  <\/b><br \/>\n  reported on May 28, 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In an interview with Baku-based<br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    virutalaz.org,<br \/>\n  <\/i><br \/>\n  Hasanov said the investigative report was part of certain circles in the West engaged in \u201cblack public relations\u201d campaign against Azerbaijan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cSuch institutions that are in close contact with some Western circles are used as tools to pressure independent countries like Azerbaijan. The very same institutions, publish unfounded and false materials disguised under the \u201cjournalistic investigations\u201d stories against some countries, including Azerbaijan,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe also inform them, that such cheap and primitive methods won\u2019t work in Azerbaijan. They can be assured they won\u2019t succeed at influencing Azerbaijan\u2019s independent policies and will get an deserved response,\u201d Hasanov said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The OCCRP story, based on the original reporting by jailed Azerbaijani investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova, was the product of three months of perusing hundreds of pages of business records, annual reports and internal documents related to the deal. The story was prepared by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Swedish Television\u2019s program \u201cUppdrag Granskning\u201d (\u201cMission Investigate\u201d) and the Swedish News Agency TT.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The analysis uncovered a scheme to transfer the states shares of the profitable mobile carrier into the\u00a0hands of a \u201clocal partner\u201d with numerous links to the ruling Aliyev family, according to the OCCRP report.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read the full report<br \/>\n  <b><br \/>\n    <i><br \/>\n      <a href=\"\/en\/article\/offshores-close-to-president-paid-nothing-for-state-share-of-telecom-repost\/\"><br \/>\n        here<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/i><br \/>\n  <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan slams the OCCRP investigative report released yesterday as &#8220;black PR&#8221; and &#8220;cheap and primitive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":25453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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