Vahid Musayev

Vahid Abdulla oghlu Musayev (Azerbaijani: Vahid Abdulla oğlu Musayev) (died 8 January 1999) was the deputy Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan and Acting Minister within the month of August 1993.

From 1984 to 1986, he served overseas in Maputo, Mozambique Upon returning in 1986, he based himself in Zhytomyr and then Volodymyr-Volyns'kyi, both in Ukraine.

Due to numerous mistakes during the operation to stabilize the situation in southern Azerbaijani regions of Lankoran, Astara, Masalli, Lerik, Yardimli, Jalilabad and Bilasuvar raions in August 1993 which led to civilian injuries, he was first demoted from the rank of Major General and then sacked as Deputy Minister of Defense on 25 August 1993.

[2][3] Vahid Musayev is well known as one of the masterminds of the so-called Generals' Plot to overthrow the government of President Heydar Aliyev.

[4] General Vahid Musayev, general Rafig Agayev, general Shahin Musayev, Murad Sadaddinov and Faig Bakhishaliyev (former members of Special Purpose Police Unit (OPON)) and a few other colonels were arrested in August 1995 on charges of organizing coup d'état by planning to shoot the presidential airplane down in a premeditated rocket attack in May 1995.