According to the results of journalist investigations, information about Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and his family members’ property worth billions of dollars has been periodically published in the international media. The property is both in Azerbaijan and abroad.

Azerbaijani online channel Meydan TV assisted by PIN (People in Need) has created a map of Aliyev clan’s property, on which the property plundered from the Azerbaijani population and found in different parts of the world and Azerbaijan is presented.

The map can be found here:  Such countries as Italy (Sardinia), Panama, Britain (London, the Virgin Islands), Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Prague), Russia (Moscow), Rumania (Bucharest), Turkey (Istanbul), Georgia (Tbilisi), and Dubai are particularly noted.

According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) data, in the recent years, the Aliyev clan has been involved in numerous secret business operations on several continents. It controls a considerable part of the Azerbaijani economy, gold mines, tourism, mobile communication companies, and banks through offshore companies and intermediaries. It also obtained elite real estate in various European cities and in the Persian Gulf countries.

Azerbaijani journalists, who investigated and exposed the presidential clan’s secret affairs, suffered a lot for that. They became a target for slanderous campaigns, and then they ended up in jail on trumped-up charges, as many human rights organizations state. More than 80 local political activists and oppositionists were imprisoned for criticizing the Aliyev regime, which quickly becomes the most repressive one in the region.

In June 2015, the Aliyev clan was actively involved in the organization of the European Games in Azerbaijan. While around 6000 sportsmen participated in the contests, most of the European leaders boycotted the games in protest against the aggravating human rights situation in Azerbaijan. Only a few officials from Eastern Europe, including Rumanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, were present at the opening ceremony of the Games at the Heydar Aliyev stadium in Baku.

According to Azerbaijani economist Gubad Ibadoglu, around $200 billions of dollars have been transferred from Azerbaijan to offshore zones օn the islands in Latin America, Oceania, and Europe. To that end, banks of Muslim countries, real estate transactions abroad, gold, and stocks were used, and, as a result of the money transfer to the offshore zones, each Azerbaijani family lost tens of thousands of dollars in its budget.