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As reported by the Azerbaijani information agency Turan, few days have passed after the Azerbaijani mass media published information exposing the conspiracy against the President Ilham Aliyev, while the law-enforcement bodies and special services of Azerbaijan have not in any way reacted to this.

The agency reminds that Azeri human rights activist Eynulla Fatullayev published an article on haqqin.az website, where he argued the conspiracy against Ilham Aliyev was masterminded by the Russian Presidential Administration Chief of Staff Vyacheslav Volodin, also involved few others, like one of the leaders of the Azerbaijani Diaspora in Russia, former Deputy Prime Minister Abbas Abbasov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Serbia Eldar Hasanov, a number of former high-ranking officials as well as the leaders of the National Council Rustam Ibragimbekov and Eldar Namazov.

Fatullayev argues in the publication that the conspirators were plotting to stir unrest during forthcoming Presidential elections in October with the purpose of forceful regime change. “It was the intervention of President Vladimir Putin and also perhaps some American friends, which saved the country from a new disorder,” the activist asserts.

“This publication suggests that the “conspiracy” was prevented by Putin or by American friends. It turns out that secret services of Azerbaijan have overlooked the conspiracy,” concludes Turan.

Attempts of the news agency to obtain more information about the exposed conspiracy from MFA and the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan have yielded no results.

“One gets the impression that they indeed know nothing about it,” Turan writes.

“At the same time the calmness of the security agencies is quite surprising. Let us remember that in 2007 it was the MNS which filed a lawsuit against Eynulla Fatullayev and arrested him for the publication in which he stated that in case of a new conflict Iran could launch a strike on the strategic objects of Baku. Now however the KGB gives no reaction to the message about the plot in which foreign actors are involved,” says the article.

The article also notes that the fact of mentioning the name of Ambassador to Serbia Eldar Hasanov requires a response from the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry. However, this institution keeps silent either, while its officer is in fact being accused of conducting anti-government activities.

At the same time haqqin.az reports that Azerbaijani diplomat Tural Gurbanov who recently died in the Maldives, is a relative of the former General Prosecutor and currently the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Serbia and Montenegro Eldar Hasanov. The article also mentions that T. Gurbanov is affiliated with the MNS foreign intelligence unit.