Two Azerbaijani deputies, who were involved in a corruption dust-up, will not attend the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), contact.az reports.

“The delegation headed by the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee  includes Rafael Huseynov, Sevinj Fataliyeva, Sahib Gafarov, Vusal Huseynov and Sabir Hajiyev. It is noteworthy that the delegation  does not include  Elkhan Suleymanov and Muslim Mamedov, the defendants in the scandal connected with the investigation of the Italian Office of Public Prosecutor of the facts of bribery of deputies of the PACE, and in particular Luca Volontè. In addition, the NGO "European Initiative for Stability" made a report on “Caviar Diplomacy-2” 'sheds light on the facts of corruption in the PACE,” the newspaper writes.

According to it, about 60 civil society activists appealed to the PACE session with a call to expel Suleymanov and Mamedov from PACE, and suspend the voice of the Azerbaijani delegation until the investigation is completed, the newspaper writes.

The prosecutor’s office of Milan accused Volontè of receiving a 2,39 euro bribe  from the Azerbaijani deputies Elkhan Suleymanov and Muslim Mamedov.