The head of department for coordination of law enforcement agencies of the Azerbaijani presidential administration, Fuad Alasgarov, said that by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s order, a criminal case on the 1988 Sumgait events has been resuscitated.

He said that a new group led by the Deputy Prosecutor General Rustam Usubov will be in charge of the investigation, Trend News reported.