The State Security Service of Azerbaijan has charged a group of MFA employees.

According to AzerNews, three MFA officials - Farhad Molla-Zadeh, Chairman of the Tender Commission of the Ministry, Salim Alizadeh, Head of the Economics Department of the Affairs Department, and Nurupasha Abdullayev, Chief of the Consular-Legal Department of the Consular Department - have remanded in custody by court order on charges of bribery, abuse of power and embezzlement.

As the State Security Service noted the criminal case is under investigation.