PoliticsAzerbaijan pardons French businessman Martin Ryan after EU lifts sanctions on Alisher Usmanov
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev pardoned French businessman Martin Ryan and 19 others. Ryan had received a 10-year sentence in Baku for allegedly collecting military information during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Media reports linked his release to a Baku-Paris deal in which France pressed for EU sanctions on Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov to be lifted. The EU removed Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from its sanctions list on September 22.
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Azerbaijan pardons French businessman Martin Ryan after EU lifts sanctions on Alisher Usmanov