Even a tiny financial transparency of the government brought out the facts of ownership of huge amount of real estate, including land allotments. Among them is the head of the Presidential Administration, chairman of the Commission on Combating Corruption Ramiz Mehdiyev.
Since 2014 the Ministry of Agriculture has begun to make public through the departmental website (www.agro.gov.az) the list of recipients of agricultural subsidies. Among them is Galina Y. Mehdiyeva, Ramiz Mehdiyev’s wife. She has 100 hectares of vineyards in the village Novkhany of the Absheron area and 8.9 hectares of land for other crops in the former state farm for subtropical plants in the Sabunchu district of Baku. The annual amount of the state budget subsidies accrued to her for the cultivation of the land was 4356 manat (http://agro.gov.az/index.php?cat=200&ses=e10bb).
70-year-old Galina Mehdiyeva is Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Head of the Department of Computational Mathematics, Baku State University and a member of the Dissertation Council (http://ru.cyber.az/index.php?newsid=9) of the Institute of Management Systems (from 2014 The Institute of Cybernetics). She is the author of four textbooks on numerical analysis and programming, as well as 39 scientific articles (http://mechmath.bsu.edu.az/ru/content/qalina_mextieva_569). But it is unlikely that without the help of her husband and receiving just a scientist’s salary she would be able to achieve such success in agriculture.
Note that information pop-up in the press confirms that the family fortune of Mehdiyev spread also on the banking sector. His daughter Nigar directs the department of oncology breast cancer clinic of the Azerbaijan Medical University and is a member of the Supervisory Board of Bank BTB, where she owns a 75% stake (http://btb.az/az/about-us/bank-haqqinda-header/management-board).
Her husband, deputy of Milli Mejlis, Ilham Aliyusif oglu Aliyev is known in the community as a businessman in the construction sector. 08B
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