ARRESTS IN MAY 2020
16 May
A wanted Islamist was detained for involvement in the foreign illegal armed gangs
Saleh Adilov
The Azerbaijani State Security Service reported that as a result of joint search operations carried out along with the Turkish Intelligence Services, an Azerbaijani citizen, Saleh Adilov, d.o.b. 1984, was detained and brought to our country.
According to the information, in 2008, Saleh Adilov along with other members of a religious radical gang attacked a combat post of military unit N in the Terter region. As a result, one soldier was killed and another seriously injured, and weapons and ammunition were stolen from the site of the attack.
Saleh Adilov managed to escape prosecution and left the territory of Azerbaijan heading to Iran on 14 May, 2009, where he took part in the illegal armed units operating outside the country. Quite soon he found himself in the North Waziristan Province of Pakistan, via Iran, where he joined a terrorist group affiliated with the “Taliban” and led by Vugar Hajizada.
Following the 2010 assassination of V.Hajizada by the international anti-terrorist coalition, Saleh Adilov took over the leadership of the group. In 2014, he was arrested by the Iranian law enforcement authorities while attempting to secretly travel to Turkey and from there to Syria.
After his release in 2019, Saleh Adilov illegally sneaked into Turkey and hid there, where he was captured in the city of Van.
A criminal investigation against him is currently ongoing.