Nijat Heydarov
Nijat Heydarov is the youngest son of Kamaladdin Heydarov, Azerbaijan’s emergency situations minister. Nijat and his elder brother Tale are business partners of Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva, having owned lucrative stakes in key Azerbaijani businesses and high-value foreign investments alongside the sisters. Nijat and Tale’s main asset is Gilan Holding LLC, a major Azerbaijani conglomerate […]
Abdulla Hussain Abdul Rahman Turki
Abdulla Hussain Abdul Rahman Turki is a Dubai-based businessman.[155] [213] He owns 51% of Baku Café LLC,[155] a UAE company that operates an upmarket restaurant by the same name in central Dubai,[157] near the Burj Khalifa skyscraper.[155] [669] [213] The other shareholder in Baku Café is Leyla Aliyeva, who owns 49%.[155] [213] Abdulla Hussain Abdul […]
Arif Pashayev
Arif Pashayev is an Azerbaijani research scientist. He is the father of Mehriban Aliyeva, the vice president and first lady of Azerbaijan.[1302] As a tenured physics professor at the Azerbaijan Technical University,[876] Pashayev has hundreds of academic articles to his name.[876] He spent the latter part of his career heading several prestigious Azerbaijani scientific and […]
Tale Heydarov
Tale Heydarov is the eldest son of Kamaladdin Heydarov, Azerbaijan’s emergency situations minister. Tale and his younger brother Nijat are business partners of Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva, having owned lucrative stakes in key Azerbaijani businesses and high-value foreign investments alongside the sisters. Tale and Nijat’s main asset is Gilan Holding LLC, a major Azerbaijani conglomerate […]
Mehriban Aliyeva
Mehriban Aliyeva is Azerbaijan’s vice president and first lady.[1014] She is married to President Ilham Aliyev, and they have three children: Heydar, Leyla, and Arzu.[1014] While Ilham Aliyev rules the country, it is Mehriban’s side of the family, the Pashayevs, who grew wealthy under his rule. Mehriban’s father, Arif Pashayev, was supposedly the driving force […]
Ilham Aliyev
Ilham Aliyev is the president of Azerbaijan, having served since 2003.[1014] He has ruled with an iron fist, as his father, Heydar Aliyev, did before him.[1015] His two decades in office have been marred by brutal crackdowns and human rights abuses, including the torture and imprisonment of opposition figures and independent journalists.[1014] [891] Aliyev is […]
Mir Jamal Pashayev
Mir Jamal Pashayev is an Azerbaijani businessman and relative of Azerbaijan’s first family. He is a cousin of Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva and a nephew of Arif Pashayev, President Ilham Aliyev’s father-in-law.[595] He is the deputy chairman of the board of directors of PASHA Holding,[596] a multibillion-dollar Azerbaijani conglomerate majority-owned by Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva […]
Kenneth Ross Hetherington
Kenneth Ross Hetherington is an Australian businessman and director of several companies that held accounts at Malta’s Pilatus Bank, which was shuttered in 2018 over systemic failures to comply with anti-money laundering regulations.[584] [591] [587] Hetherington was a signatory on 27 accounts at the bank, many of those associated with the family members of senior […]
Farnoush Farsiar
Farnoush Farsiar is a British-Iranian private banker and the founder of Plato Capital, a Dubai-based investment fund.[209] She is a former banker at the Dubai government-controlled bank Emirates NBD, which is where she met Hamidreza Ghanbari, who also worked there.[341] Farsiar left Emirates NBD to become an “independent family advisor,”[341] and Ghanbari went on to […]
Thamer Aidi
Thamer Aidi was a London-based investment manager with an MBA from Rice University.[15] He was married to Farnoush Farsiar,[586] founder of the Dubai-based investment fund Plato Capital.[209] He was diagnosed with a brain tumor around 2013 and died in 2017.[949] With Australian accountant Robert John Baker, Aidi ran Paddington Partners Ltd in Guernsey.[11] In 2012, […]
