Azerbaijan's Customs Service increased budget contributions by 5%

An auction for the placement of interest-bearing, unsecured, undocumented, registered bonds of the non-bank credit organization (NBCO) Embafinans with the code AZ2013020600 ISIN, worth 2 million manat for a one-year term, was held at the Baku Stock Exchange (BSE), the BSE reported.

Zarifa Hamzaeva, the owner of 84.5% of Premiumbank's shares, has passed away, the Bank reported. She was also the wife of Jahangir Askerov, the founder and president of Gazelly Group, the leading cosmetics manufacturer in the country, and the former head of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) (dismissed in September 2023).

In 2024, nominal income of Azerbaijan's population totalled AZN 83,093.4 million.

In 2024, Azerbaijan's state budget revenues totalled AZN 37,164.2 million and budget expenditures AZN 37,719.7 million. This was reported by the State Statistics Committee.