The State Security Service has detained a person who was blackmailing the family of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

Axar.az reports a segment about the incident was broadcast on ITV.

We present the text of the segment:

The segment noted that since the beginning of this year, bloggers living abroad — Mehman and Emin Huseynov, as well as Gabil Mammadov — began spreading defamatory information about Alena Aliyeva on various online platforms.

At one point, Mehman Huseynov even displayed a few seconds of an image fragment during a live broadcast.

Where did these fabricated video materials come from? The bloggers claim they received the videos from certain individuals. But who are these people?

Around the same time the bloggers launched their smear campaign online, an individual began attempting to contact high-ranking Azerbaijani officials via social media accounts, email, and a phone number registered abroad. This person, who is located in a foreign country, blackmailed them using footage he claimed belonged to Alena Aliyeva. In exchange for not releasing the material, he demanded €5 million.