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Posted 14 March 2018 - 08:13 AM

News.am, Armenia
March 13 2018
 
 
Teacher dismissed for calls for friendship between Azerbaijanis and Armenians
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Young teacher, Rovshan Azizov, announces his resignation from work for calling for peace and friendship between Azerbaijani and Armenian children. He has been working as a teacher of the Russian language at school number 220 in the Nizami district of Baku since 2004. At the same time he always preferred non-traditional methods of teaching, using artistry and stage productions to increase the interest of children in classes. With the participation of children, he shot several videos dedicated to the friendship between Azerbaijanis and Armenians, contact.az.

"I, as a teacher, want the Armenian and Azerbaijani children live in the spirit of friendship and love," Azizov said. The videos were played by the roles of Azerbaijani and Armenian children, who at first feuded, but realizing that they were friends.

This idea of ​​Azizov caused protests of activists of the Karabakh Liberation Organization.

"On December 20 they broke into the school and started insulting me, calling me a "traitor", and an "Armenian agent", demanding dismissal," Azizov continued. After 4 days he was fired from school, allegedly for violation of labor discipline, systematic late work.

The teacher appealed against the order of the director and on March 14, the Nizami district court is expected to make a decision.

"In fact, in the court director admitted that I was fired for what I said in the lessons about Armenians in the school without their permission. When I reminded that his own daughter took part in my video, he said that he thought the video was about peace between nations, but when he learnt that it was about the peace between the Armenians and Azerbaijanis, he changed his mind," said Azizov.

Azizov noted that none of the parents expressed any objections to him. Parents and children still keep in touch with him. As for colleagues, they were forced to sign an appeal to the court against Azizov.

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Posted 16 March 2018 - 10:16 AM

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Azeri activists held a protest rally March 14 outside the Azerbaijani Embassy in Washington D.C..

The activists were protesting against the dictatorial regime of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani Azadliq news agency reported. “This is our first step, but this will continue. Our goal is to make our voices hear in Azerbaijan,” one of the activists said.

The protesters were wearing masks and holding posters saying “Resist Aliyev”, “Freedom to the people of Azerbaijan”, “Same Dictator Different Century” “Protect Human Rights”.

The activists also addressed the hundreds of political prisoners currently jailed in Azerbaijan, demanding Baku to immediately release them. The activists, who have fled Azerbaijan due to oppression, criticized the state-sanctioned pressures against their families back home and demanded the resignation of Aliyev’s government.

“In addition of Ilgar Mamedov, Afghan Mukhtarli, Giyas Mamedov and Gyozal Bayramli, there are more than 200 political prisoners in Azerbaijan. As people living abroad who love their country, we too express our discontent and demand the release of all political prisoners [in Azerbaijan],” they said.

Voice of America asked the protesters why they are wearing masks, and the activists said it is a precaution in order to protect their families in Azerbaijan.

 
 
 
 
 

 

 


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Posted 16 March 2018 - 10:17 AM

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UK Prime Minister Theresa May said March 14 that the British intelligence will begin supervising and probing financial and business conduct of people suspected in corruption, Azerbaijani Adaqliq news agency reported.

According to RFE/RL, the business activities of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s family will be under secret investigation.

New details are emerging over the corruption scandal involving Ilham Aliyev and his family.

The scandal was dubbed Azerbaijani Laundromat and involved a 3 billion dollar secret account which the Azeri ruling elite used to bribe European politicians.

 
 

 
 


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Posted 20 March 2018 - 10:48 AM

Keep on dreaming, fake sultan!

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March 19 2018
 
 
Azerbaijan makes territorial claims against Armenia, again
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev on Monday, March 19 once again made territorial claims against Armenia.

Addressing the Azerbaijanis on the beginning of Novruz, Aliyev said a big part of the territory of present-day Armenia “is the historical Azerbaijani land.”

According to him, numerous books, maps confirm the aforesaid, while historical books allegedly reveal that at the beginning of the 19th century, the absolute majority of the Yerevan Khanate’s population, 80% in particular, were Azerbaijanis.

Aliyev had on February 8 delivered threats against Armenia, claiming that "Yerevan Khanate and Zangezur are Azerbaijan’s historic lands."

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Posted 20 March 2018 - 10:53 AM

EurasiaNet.org
March 19 2018
 
 
In Armenia, Azerbaijani Leader's Ancestral Village Lies Abandoned

The Aliyev family - whose sons have ruled Azerbaijan for almost five decades - hail from a village in what is now enemy territory.

Bradley JardineNeil Hauer Mar 19, 2018

Depopulation and lack of investment since the fall of the USSR have led to thousands of villages across the Caucasus being abandoned. (Photo by Bradley Jardine)

High in Armenia’s mountains, near Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave, sits Tanahat, an abandoned village that was once home to Baku’s ruling elite.

The Aliyev family – whose sons have ruled Azerbaijan for almost five decades – lived until at least 1921 in what was then called Jomartlou, a small village that in its prime in the early 1980s was home to 70 Azerbaijani families who toiled on the local collective farm.

“You want to see the village of the vozhd of our great friends [in Azerbaijan]?” Armen, a local guide from neighboring Sisian, said sarcastically, referencing a title often used for Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. (Armen is not his real name; he asked not to be named because of the political sensitivity of the village. His views reflect the animosity Armenians and Azerbaijanis continue to harbor for each other in the third decade of a brittle ceasefire.)

“He was born there,” Armen said, guiding the jeep through the dirt and snow of the mountain pass. “His family changed his date of birth.” The reason, he thinks, was that it would be politically unpalatable for a senior Azerbaijani leader to have been born in Armenia.

Heydar Aliyev, first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan from 1969-1982, and then president of independent Azerbaijan from 1993-2003, may well have been born in Jomartlouin 1921.

According to his official biography – as recorded by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, a charity founded in 2004 and headed by Azerbaijani Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva, Heydar's daughter-in-law – the former president was born in Nakhchivan on May 10, 1923, shortly after his family moved there from Jomartlou following the Soviet occupation of the Caucasus. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia corroborates that account.

But many contend that Heydar was in fact born here. “Rumors have long circulated that Aliyev was in fact born two years earlier, but that it was decided that a senior Azerbaijani politician should not have an Armenian place of birth,” wrote longtime Caucasus expert Tom de Waal, on the occasion of Aliyev's death in 2003.

Curiously, after this reporter visited the village and tweeted about it, a number of Azerbaijani news websites published identical stories that said the Aliyevs didn't move out until 1925, when Heydar was two.

Despite its small population, Jomartlou boasted a regular bus service connecting it to Baku in the 1970s – a service founded at the behest of Heydar Aliyev, then a high-ranking Soviet official.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Armenia's independence, Jomartlou's fortunes fell. Its Azerbaijani inhabitants fled at the onset of the ethnic conflict in 1988 and it was later resettled by Armenian refugees, but most of them didn't stay long.

The village was renamed Tanahat, after a nearby Armenian monastery, in 1995 as its Azerbaijani past was airbrushed from Armenian history.

“There are only 10 families left in the village. But in reality, Tanahat has no future,” the village’s leader, Gomed Narcissian, told Armenian reporters in 2008. “The conditions are only good for animals – there is absolutely nothing here for people.”

Looking around, it’s not hard to see why he reached this conclusion. Almost all the houses dotting the hill are decrepit and long ago collapsed. The only signs of recent life are the occasional empty vodka bottle, indicating at least a few locals are returning to drink, if nothing else. And the road connecting the village with the world is simply a dirt track on the side of a mountain, impassable in winter.

In the post-Soviet period, villagers argued that the authorities neglected them. One of the most persistent issues was the lack of a regular bus service, which meant locals had to walk five miles – over an hour – to the neighboring village of Tasik to get a bus to Sisian, the largest town in the area. Without such a service, local children could not attend school, and families would move to neighboring towns instead. Only three families lived here in 2014. Today, there are none.

But the village may attract an unusual segment of the regional tourist population.

“You know, it isn’t uncommon for Azerbaijanis to cross the military border at Nakhchivan and travel here in secret,” Armen says, repeating a widely held belief in the region. The Armenian Border Guard did not respond to requests for comment.

Heydar Aliyev ruled neighboring Azerbaijan with an iron fist from 1969 to 2003, with a brief interruption in 1987 following Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s anti-corruption campaign. Aliyev was one of the campaign’s first victims, but returned to power in 1993 following the independent state’s near descent into civil war. When he died in 2003, he was succeeded by his son, Ilham, who remains president today. Ilham is running, with no serious opposition, in elections next month for a new seven-year term in office.

The senior Aliyev’s legacy remains mixed in Armenia. He was the head of the enemy state, and it was under his leadership that the Karabakh conflict entered its bloodiest phase. But compared to today's leadership under Ilham, Heydar is remembered as relatively diplomatic and open to peace with Armenia.

Whatever the case, Jomartlou/Tanahat today languishes in abandonment and obscurity.

“You are the first visitors I’ve ever taken here,” Armen said with a smile.

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Posted 21 March 2018 - 09:26 AM

PanArmenian, Armenia
March 20 2018
 
 
Aliyev stands on site of leveled Armenian church to threaten Yerevan
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PanARMENIAN.Net - When making territorial claims against Armenia for the second time in the past month, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev was standing on the spot where once an Armenian church used to rise.

Addressing the Azerbaijanis on the beginning of Novruz, Aliyev said a big part of the territory of present-day Armenia “is the historical Azerbaijani land.”

It is noteworthy that Aliyev was standing in front of the Maiden Tower where the Armenian church of the Holy Virgin was standing up until 1990, blogger, journalist Sedrak Mkrtchyan said in a tweet.

The church was built in 1797 or 1799 at the foot of the Maiden Tower, a fortress in Baku. According to a diplomat working in the Azerbaijani capital in 1992, the church was demolished in the wake of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Now, there is an empty space at its former site near the Maiden Tower.

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Posted 31 March 2018 - 08:31 AM

PanArmenian, Armenia
March 30 2018
 
 
Journalist critical of Azerbaijan shot in France
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PanARMENIAN.Net - A gunman shot and gravely wounded an exiled Azeri journalist and killed his wife near the southern French city of Toulouse on Friday, March 30, in an incident the local mayor said appeared to be a settling of political scores, Reuters reports.

Rahim Namazov was an outspoken critic of the Azeri political leadership and served time in prison before seeking exile in France in 2010.

In a video posted on YouTube in December that year, Namazov said he was jailed after writing stories about brutality against soldiers in units of the Azeri military. He said he had spent six months in solitary confinement.

“It’s the journalistic profession, the father of a family and the freedom of the press that has been attacked today,” Karine Michelet-Traval, the mayor of Colomiers where the shooting occurred, said in a statement.

In separate comments to La Depeche newspaper, she said: “You can’t help but think this was a settling of scores.”

Namazov’s wife was killed in the shooting. A police source said she had been shot in the head, apparently at close range. Witnesses spoke of hearing multiple gunshots, local media reported.

The local prosecutor is due to make a statement at 16h00 (1400 GMT).

Human Rights Watch said last year the Azeri government continued its crackdown on dissenting voices and that reports of torture persisted. It also said independent media outlets faced harassment and closure and critical journalists faced threats and intimidation aimed at silencing them.

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Posted 13 April 2018 - 09:57 AM

Washington Post
April 12 2018
 
 
Azerbaijan’s president prefers pop stars to democracy
 
 
By Editorial Board April 10
 
RULE ONE of the Dictator’s Handbook: Allow no one else to seriously challenge you in an election. Rule Two: Spend enough of your nation’s treasure to lure a popular Western entertainer to distract from Rule One. Previously, President Ilham Aliyev, son of a strongman who inherited his father’s distaste for democracy, enticed Lady Gaga to perform, then Mariah Carey. Now Mr. Aliyev has booked pop star Christina Aguilera for the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix on April 28.
 
That will be just 2½ weeks after Wednesday’s presidential election. Mr. Aliyev has so thoroughly suffocated democracy in Azerbaijan that he will certainly win a fourth term by a wide margin. The campaign is entirely uncompetitive. Two opposition parties are calling for a boycott. Mr. Aliyev moved up the election date by six months, perhaps in order to get it out of the way before the auto race, which presumably will be more competitive than the political one.
 
Mr. Aliyev has never hesitated to spend lavishly to dress up his shoddy reputation. Last year he gave away hundreds of free apartments to Azerbaijani journalists; one leading editor said it was akin to a bribe. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a consortium of news organizations, in a report titled “The Azerbaijani Laundromat,”documented how Mr. Aliyev and others in the Azerbaijani elite used overseas shell companies to hide “a secret slush fund to pay off European politicians, buy luxury goods, launder money, and otherwise benefit themselves.” Then there was the bacchanal sponsored by Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company, an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Baku for 10 members of the U.S. Congress and 32 staff members, who received silk scarves, crystal tea sets and Azerbaijani rugs.
 
If Ms. Aguilera has time, she may want to poke around Azerbaijan’s jails. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Azerbaijan ranks among the worst jailers of journalists in the world, with at least 10 imprisoned when its last survey was completed in December. She might also want to set aside some time to get a reality check on Azerbaijan from Khadija Ismayilova, a courageous journalist who endured a prison term for the “crime” of her hard-hitting investigative reports about Mr. Aliyev’s family wealth. Or, perhaps Ms. Aguilera could visit Ilgar Mammadov, a prominent alternative voice to Mr. Aliyev who was arrestedmore than five years ago shortly after announcing he would challenge the president in the 2013 elections. Mr. Mammadov was accused of inciting violence and sentenced to seven years in prison after a faulty trial. The European Court of Human Rights found his detention illegal. He is still locked away.
 


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Posted 16 April 2018 - 10:59 AM

can't say much to aliyev today, we have one just like him in our homeland 


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Posted 15 July 2018 - 07:54 AM

PanArmenian, Armenia
July 14 2018
 
 
Azerbaijan declares Belarusian-Armenian blogger wanted (video)
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PanARMENIAN.Net - A Belarusian blogger with Armenian roots, Vladislav Mosesov, commonly known as Vlad Maga, announced in a video message that Azerbaijan has started a persecution against him after he visited the country.

“Yesterday Azerbaijan declared me wanted. I have already left my country, but I can’t reveal where I’m going for security reasons,” the blogger said.

“I ask all the countries that consider me an ally to take measures with regards to my situation. My life is in danger. They are following me at every turn.”

He added that if he fails to reach out 3 days after the video message, something bad has happened to him.

Earlier, Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin revealed that Vlad had managed to travel to Azerbaijan and find the house in Ganja (Kirovabad) which belonged to his parents before they fled the Armenian pogroms.

After visiting Azerbaijan, the blogger went to Armenia and Karabakh. Threats against him began after he published a video about his trip to Azerbaijan.

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Posted 16 July 2018 - 10:43 AM



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Posted 16 July 2018 - 10:45 AM



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Posted 16 July 2018 - 10:48 AM

people are looking for him. he should move to Armenia :) Artsax :) noone will fine him ther.

but then if azeris place him under wonted list, in any EU country he will be  captured and send to azerbujan



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Posted 16 July 2018 - 10:51 AM

but his youtube channel is making money :) original video 617,553 views X $0.05, 153,469 views X $0.05 



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Posted 19 July 2018 - 01:13 PM

his  in  Armenia 



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Posted 08 November 2018 - 11:50 AM

The fake sultan of azveristan is at it again, barking incessantly. How many years of barking would that be? Who cares let him bark! 

Arminfo, Armenia

Nov 6 2018
 
 
Ilham Aliyev: Every scenario is possible in settlement of the Karabakh conflict

Yerevan November 6

Marianna Mkrtchyan. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev again spoke about any means for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Thus, Aliyev, at a meeting with representatives of the public and artists from the Agdam region, once again assured that Azerbaijan from a military point of view is a powerful state not only in comparison with Armenia, but also on a global scale. He pointed to the intention to further build up military power, expressing the conviction that this is one of the most important factors for negotiations. "Unfortunately, the norms of international law are completely ignored. We will achieve what we want. We demand justice. We demand that our historical lands be freed from invaders, and they will be freed. The Azerbaijani state will continue to take all necessary measures to achieve this sacred goal. I hope that the leadership of Armenia, having correctly analyzed the situation in the region, will soon withdraw its occupying forces. Otherwise, any option is possible and we are ready to any scenario", Aliyev said.

At the same time, he tried to raise the moral and psychological spirit of his own society by praising the events of April 2016, when the armed forces of Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military aggression against Artsakh. Aliyev said that the April battles are the glorious history of Azerbaijan, a great historical victory. At the same time, he assured that in the course of these events, tens of thousands of hectares of territories were liberated. "The April battles are our big victory, a manifestation of the irreconcilable spirit of Azerbaijan.

At the same time, he assured that it was in April 2016 that a "Armenia'3 regime "was dealt a powerful blow." I have repeatedly said that the regime of Armenia the criminal junta should be condemned by the entire global community. I said that people who govern Armenia are the leaders of the regime of the criminal junta. Now the Armenian people themselves state this. That is, at present, the Armenian people speak and see everything that we talked about. The changes that have taken place in Armenia this year mean the complete collapse of their aggressive policy, this is first. Secondly, these events indicate that our policy gives results. I have repeatedly said, I want to say today, there is no need to hide it, we will further isolate Armenia from all regional projects, using all means, restore our territorial integrity. The new leadership of Armenia should not repeat the mistakes of the former criminal regime, it should soon through negotiations withdraw the occupying forces and allow the citizens of Azerbaijan to return to their native, historical, ancestral lands. The sooner they understand this, the better it will be for them, for the region. Once again I want to say that we do not intend to put up with such a situation, the norms of international law fully support our position, historical justice is on our side, "Aliyev once again tried to convince his people.

At the same time, the leader of the state with just a century-long history spoke about the age-old centuries- old belonging of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. At the same time, he tried to justify that allegedly, as a result of the chaos, the events that occurred in Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, Armenia, with external support, allegedly managed to conquer some of the Azerbaijani lands, while not mentioning that during these times Karabakh people fought for its existence and independence, and was able to avoid complete extermination. "But two years ago we demonstrated that we could liberate and liberated our lands by military means. As a result of a successful operation we carried out this year in the Nakhijevan direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, more than ten thousand hectares of land passed under our control, including heights of strategic importance. Today we fully control strategic communications, roads, including roads in Armenia, communications leading to Nagorno-Karabakh, "Aliyev said.

 

 



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Posted 01 January 2019 - 11:08 AM

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            Another Azeri Scandal: Aliyev’s Daughters

            Try to Buy $76 Million London Home

            By Harut Sassounian

            Publisher, The California Courier

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The British Guardian newspaper exposed in its Dec. 21, 2018 issue the
latest financial scandal involving the daughters of Azerbaijan’s
President Ilham Aliyev.

Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva sought to purchase two luxury Knightsbridge
apartments in London for $76 million using a secret offshore company.
The price included $4 million to convert the properties into a single
home. The apartments are located near the garden of Buckingham Palace,
according to The Guardian’s reporter Luke Harding.

In a 2016 article, The Guardian reported that Aliyev’s daughters had
set up in 2015 a secret offshore company in the British Virgin Islands
to manage their multi-million dollar property portfolio in Britain.

The two daughters are shareholders in Exaltation Limited, incorporated
in 2015 with the purpose of “holding UK property.” The offshore
company was set up by the London law firm of Child & Child which
claimed falsely that the Aliyev women “had no political connections.”
This information was exposed when the Panama Papers, the secret
database of the offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca, were leaked to the
international media.

Aliyev’s daughters, according to The Guardian, have “amassed vast
personal business empires. They own luxury apartments in the UAE, as
well as interests in telecoms and gold mining. It was already known
that Leyla Aliyeva owned a $22 million mansion on Hampstead Lane in
north London.” In addition, the Aliyev family has luxury apartments
around the globe worth over $140 million and these are just the known
properties, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting
Project. The Aliyevs also own an apartment valued up to $8 million
overlooking the Speakers’ Corner of Hyde Park (London), nine
waterfront mansions in Dubai valued at $44 million, a dacha near
Moscow worth at least $37 million, and a $1.1 million villa in an
exclusive neighborhood in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary.

Under British rules, the Aliyev daughters are classified as
“PEPs”—politically exposed persons—making them subject to greater
scrutiny and due diligence checks by banks. The Guardian reported that
the law firm of Child & Child did not declare the two women’s
high-profile status to the British government. On the official form
asking if they are PEPs, the law firm checked the “no” box instead of
“yes.”

Another British lawyer, Derrick French, “set up a second clandestine
Panamanian trust called UF Universe Foundation, “which controlled a
majority stake in Ata Holding, one of Azerbaijan’s biggest
conglomerates,” according to The Guardian. Ata Holding, established in
2003, was owned by “Azerbaijan’s minister of taxes, Fazil Mammadov,
with a secret controlling stake in the $600 million conglomerate. Ata
Holding owned “two major banks, construction firms and Baku’s
five-star Excelsior hotel, with Pres. Aliyev’s three children.”

In 2005, the control of UF Universe Foundation changed hands. Pres.
Aliyev’s three children, Leyla, Arzu and their brother Heydar, who at
the time was just seven, had a combined 50 percent interest in the
trust. Their mother Mehriban was the “protector,” an anonymous role
giving her control over the Foundation. The other “protector” was
Mammadov with a 30 percent share. Ata’s chairman, Ahmet Erentok,
received only 15%. In 2007, UF Universe Foundation was closed down,
but Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva were listed as the majority owners of Ata,
via another Panamanian firm, Hughson Management, Inc. Javad Marandi, a
close associate of Pres. Aliyev, had introduced the Aliyeva sisters to
the law firm Child & Child, the British tribunal was told. Attorney
Khalid Sharif, senior partner of Child & Child, then set up on behalf
of the two sisters, Exaltation Limited, a British Virgin Islands firm.

In the case of the attempt by Pres. Aliyev’s daughters to purchase the
$76 million property in London, a British disciplinary tribunal fined
Sharif $57,000 and $51,000 in costs for failing to carry out
money-laundering checks and breaching his professional code.

After the contract was signed, the Aliyeva sisters began to pay the
purchase price of the two London apartments in installments,
transferring $13 million. However, “the deal ‘unraveled’ in 2016 after
their ownership was exposed,” according to The Guardian.

Not surprisingly, The Guardian newspaper revealed that “Leaked US
diplomatic cables suggest President Aliyev is Azerbaijan’s richest
person”.






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