Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has appointed Azerbaijani lawyer Gündüz Mammadov as Deputy Head of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces.
Modern.az reports that the information was disseminated by Anar Natigoglu, an Azerbaijani journalist and diaspora activist living in Ukraine.
Our compatriot, originally from Ganja, worked in prosecutor's offices for years.
In 2014, he was appointed prosecutor of Odesa city. In late 2015, he was promoted to deputy prosecutor of Odesa region.
In 2016, Gündüz Mammadov started working as the prosecutor of the occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
In 2019, he was promoted to Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine. In 2021, he voluntarily resigned from his position.
It is reported that he has exceptional services in collecting facts of war crimes committed by Russia against the civilian population in Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and bringing them to international instances.
Mr. Mammadov, who holds the rank of Third Class State Justice Advisor, graduated from the Faculty of Law of Odesa National University named after I.I. Mechnikov in 1996.
