According to the first version, Nihad Aliyev shot himself (updated)

Baku/27.03.21/Turan: The Istanbul edition of “Sabah” publishes primary data on the death of the top manager of the state oil company SOCAR, Nihad Aliyev, last night.

According to the police, the deceased, at 23 o'clock along with his guests (three women and three men) came to the hotel from the restaurant and went up to the room. The interrogation of Aliyev's guests showed that while resting in his room, he took a pistol from his belt and jokingly put it to his head. To the exclamations of the guests that it was dangerous, Aliyev said that the weapon was not loaded, to which the guests said, "the devil could have loaded it." Aliyev pulled the trigger and a shot rang out.

Upon hearing the shooting, the hotel staff called the police. The seriously wounded Aliyev was taken to the hospital, but it was not possible to save him.

According to “Sabah”, the police continue to question witnesses and have not yet made statements to the press.

The state-owned company SOCAR itself does not comment on the incident. According to some reports, 40-year-old Nihad Aliyev is a cousin of SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev. According to some reports, the deceased was the second person in SOCAR Trading.

* According to “Forbes”, Socar Trading was originally established in Switzerland to trade Azerbaijani oil. Now the company operates as a global trader, selling oil to third-party companies. Socar Trading's revenue in 2018 amounted to $ 53.5 billion (there is no more recent data).

In Russia, the company cooperates with “Rosneft” and “Surgutneftegaz”, whose oil is supplied to Turkey, Croatia, Bulgaria and the United States. In 2019, the parent company Socar, together with Savings Bank, entered the capital of the Antipinsky Oil Refinery, which is now undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. -02В-

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2021 March 26 (Friday) 22:50:44

SOCAR employee killed in Istanbul hotel

Baku/26.03.21/Turan: A video from the scene of the murder of the sales manager of the state-owned company SOCAR, Nihad Aliyev, has been distributed on the social network.

The video shows the dead naked Nihad and a girl in a hotel room.

Earlier, an expat journalist Habib Muntazir reported that the murder took place in a hotel in Istanbul's Besiktas district on March 25.

The Report agency reported that he died in the hospital from a bullet wound to the head, which was received by carelessness while handling a gun.

Nihad Aliyev is the nephew of President of SOCAR Rovnag Abdullayev and the brother of one of the founders of SOCAR Trading, Anar Aliyev. -0—